Superfast trains to connect Budapest with Warsaw and Cluj Napoca?

The detailed feasibility study about a fast train connection between Budapest and Cluj Napoca (Kolozsvár, Romania) will cost 750 million HUF (EUR 2.1 million) and the Trenecon Tanácsadó és Tervező Kft. won the project together with the Kontúr Csoport Tervező, Építtető, Kivitelező Kereskedelmi Kft. 

According to napi.hu, NIF Nemzeti Infrastruktúra Fejlesztő Zrt. (NIF National Infrastructure Development Ltd.) announced the results of the open tender in the public procurement journal of the European Union. The winners have to write the paper following the EU’s allocation distribution regulations.

Both lines (to Warsaw and Cluj Napoca) will be 250-300 kilometres long allowing a speed of 250-300 or even 350 kilometres per hour. Furthermore, the line has to provide service for at least 500 thousand passengers per year and it

has to be attached to the traffic system of at least two cities having a minimum of 135 thousand inhabitants.

Moreover, it has to include in their route monumental buildings like bridges above big rivers (Tisza, Szamos, Körös). The winners and NIF signed the relevant contract on September 28.

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