Three traction substations will supply power to trams in Olsztyn. All the facilities were built and fitted with equipment produced by Trakcja PRKiI S.A.
Before the end of this year, residents of Olsztyn will be using a new means of urban public transport. Trams will return to the city’s streets after 50 years, since they stopped running in 1965. Olsztyn will thus become the 15th agglomeration in Poland whose public transport system will include urban rail transport. The city’s current tram network consists of a main line with 7,285 metres of track and two branches 1,903 m and 792 m long. The traction network will be supplied from three substations equipped and commissioned by Trakcja PRKiI S.A.
The substation equipment includes, among others:
at the “Obiegowa” substation:
RPS 660V switchgear – 10 bays
RSN 17.5kV switchgear – 7 bays,
at the “Zajezdnia” substation:
RPS 660V switchgear – 8 bays
RSN 17.5kV switchgear – 8 bays
at the “Sikorskiego” substation:
RPS 660V switchgear – 13 bays
RSN 17.5kV switchgear – 8 bays
The total value of the work carried out under contracts concluded with the three companies responsible for building the Olsztyn tram line came to nearly PLN 7.5 million net. Trakcja PRKiI is a manufacturer of MRT-06 type switchgear, used in traction substations supplying tram lines in, among others, Łódź, Częstochowa,
