November 6 (SeeNews) - Serbian state-owned company Infrastruktura Zeleznice Srbije said on Monday it has completed the overhaul of four sections of the Kraljevo-Cacak railway line with a total length of 31 kilometres.
The upgrade has allowed trains to increase their maximum speed along the route to 100 km/h from 70 km/h, Infrastruktura Zeleznice Srbije said in a statement.
Infrastruktura Zeleznice Srbije plans to complete two bridges part of the route by mid-November, allowing a 100 km/h speed of trains crossing them.
In the last month, as a result of overhaul works, the company reduced the number of railway sections with slow traffic by 18, Infrastruktura Zeleznice Srbije noted.
In December, Infrastruktura Zeleznice Srbije said it plans to almost triple its annual investments to 640 million euro ($742.7 million) in 2017 from 215 million euro in 2016, in order to reconstruct railway lines with a total length of 275 km.
Infrastruktura Zeleznice Srbije was established as a joint stock company in 2015, as a part of the reorganisation implemented in railway operator Zeleznice Srbije which saw the uncoupling of the different sectors into separate companies.
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