Work has begun at the construction site for the Livorno Railway Overpass

Work has started on the Livorno Railway Overpass, the new RFI infrastructure built under the Works Supervision of Italferr, the engineering company of the FS Group's Infrastructure Hub that was also entrusted with verifying the executive design.

The intervention, included in the Business Plan for the development of rail connections between the Port of Livorno and the TEN-T Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor and co-financed by the Region of Tuscany, the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility and the Port System Authority of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, will result in the direct connection between the Port of Livorno and the Guasticce Interport.

The affected area will develop in parallel to the FIRENZE-PISA-LIVORNO motorway at a distance of about 25.50 m and at an equivalent elevation. The project envisages the construction of a single-track thermal traction line for a total distance of 1,580 m, with a standard cross-section width of 7.70 m, in order to ensure readiness for a possible future electrification of the line.

The primary structure consists of a railway viaduct, resting on about 700 piles with a diameter of up to 1.20 m and a depth of up to 56 m. The viaduct will be about 361 m long and will consist of 14 arches, 10 of which have a span of 22.50 m, 3 a span of 30 m, and the overpass arch having a span of 34.50 m, which will be erected over the Rome-Genoa main railway line.

The work will be carried out by a grouping of companies consisting of C.E.M.E.S. S.p.A. (Parent Company, Principal), BIT S.p.A. (Agent) and Fontanini Ivano s.n.c. (Agent).