Works base for a railway project

1 September 2016 - Projects update and handover - France

A Eurovia joint venture composed of ETF Grands Projets RFN (leader), ETF Agence Caténaire, EJL IDF Chelles, Cardem Pyro (and Cardem Paris as a subcontractor of ETF) and Flan Terrassement is currently creating a works base in Chelles and Vaires-sur-Marne (Paris region) for the fourth “suite rapide” track-laying train which, as of January 2017, will start implementing the contract awarded to ETF (Eurovia) by SNCF Réseau in September 2015.

At this future 17-hectare base, the teams will deposit the old sidings – 31 tracks and some 60 points on an area almost 1,300 m in length and 130 m in width – prior to reorganising them into 11 tracks of sidings with storage space appropriate for the works and all the machinery connected with the track-laying train, i.e. a huge railway works base with access for heavy goods vehicles. The works are due for completion in December 2016.