Ferrovial wins £520M Polish rail job featuring 900m tunnels

Leading global infrastructure company Ferrovial, working in joint venture with its Polish subsidiary Budimex, has won the contract for the Podleze-Gdow sections of the new Podłęże to Piekiełko railway line in the Małopolskie region of Poland.

The work will include two parallel railway tunnels each 900 metres long.

Over the course of 46 months, the consortium will deliver 17.5km of new electrified double‑track railway, two parallel tunnels of approximately 900 metres each, and an additional 1.9km of electrified single track.

Major structures will include 39 bridges and viaducts, 24 culverts, two underpasses and 18 retaining walls, as well as extensive ground‑improvement works totalling more than 1,244km of soil‑reinforcement columns and 112,500 cubic metres of structural concrete.

Estimated at 2.58 billion PLN (€600 million, £520 million) the package of work forms one of the most complex civil engineering projects in Poland’s national rail programme.

This award marks a significant milestone in Ferrovial’s strategic positioning in Central Europe and represents the first-ever tunnelling joint venture between Ferrovial Construction and Budimex, Poland’s leading construction company.

The contract was awarded by PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe SA, the public entity responsible for maintaining, modernizing, and operating more than 95 per cent of the country’s railway network. The new line forms part of one of Poland’s most important rail modernization initiatives, enhancing regional mobility and strengthening connections from Kraków toward the south of the country.