CATENARY WORKS
Essential to the smooth running of lines, overhead line works involve installing, maintaining and repairing all the components that supply trains with electricity.
Visible to everyone, yet little-known, catenaries are the collection systems that carry electricity to trains and trams. These sets of support cables are supplied by rectifier stations that transform the industrial current into a current adapted to each type of train.
Located throughout France, ETF’s catenary teams are made up of specialists responsible for building, monitoring, maintaining and modernising the equipment on the overhead power lines (1,500 and 25,000 volts) that supply trains. These missions are particularly complex and require the full commitment of the intervention teams.
The ETF Catenaries branch has a well-established in-house design office in France, which is a major asset in the planning and implementation of our projects. This highly structured design office operates in both the design and execution phases, offering significant added value. Thanks to this organisation, we are able to guarantee exceptional responsiveness in completing our operations within the desired timeframes.
A SPECIALIST BUSINESS
By integrating catenary work into its track construction, renewal and maintenance activities, ETF is able to offer its partners comprehensive solutions for all rail projects.
With 63 SNCF qualifications in the track and catenary sectors, ETF deploys expert, multi-skilled technicians across the entire rail network: pole-setters, catenary fitters, maintenance operators, aerial electrical cable workers and catenary specialists. They are real mechanics with a solid knowledge of electrical distribution, which is essential if they are to manoeuvre with agility and precision in the field.
The ETF Catenary branch deploys its expertise in a variety of fields, covering both urban transport sectors such as tramways and the future metro lines of the Grand Paris Express, as well as the electrification and modernisation of catenaries for SNCF and RATP operations. This dynamic business extends throughout France, reflecting our commitment to meeting national needs for electrified transport.