ETF wins several major contracts in the RAVI market
ETF has recently won several significant projects in the Industrialized Track Unit Renewal (IRUR) market, formerly known as VIGIRAIL. This strategic contract involves multi-year consultation over a renewable 3-year period, offering a simplified purchasing system for customers and encouraging companies to develop effective skills and methodologies.
Three worksites in the North-East Normandy area
- Metz-Sablon station: The Agence Grand Est, with the support of the TMN, Caténaires and FEROWAY teams, i.e. a total of around sixty people, will be mobilised on the site at Metz-Sablon station for the replacement of 10 switches and crossings. Two major operations are scheduled for November to replace a junction of 7 switches and heavy cleaning work subcontracted to the subsidiary Térélian (from 9 to 11/11). Then from 16 to 17 for the remaining 3 switch replacements.
- Lens station: Teams from Agence Nord will be working in Angoulême station on the Arras-Dunkirk line from 7 October to 1ᵉʳ December. The main work will be carried out during 6 one-off operations to renew 6 switches, simplify 2 switches and replace 2115 metres of track and ballast. All the safety work will be carried out by FEROWAY, while the catenary piercing work will be carried out by Agence Caténaires.
- Ailly-sur-Noye station: Agence Île-de-France will be in charge of the work at Ailly-sur-Noye station, on the Paris-Lille line. The work will involve replacing switches and crossings, renewing 380 m of track and ballast, and carrying out heavy drainage work including repairing the sub-base over a total distance of around 400 m. The team will also be working at Nesle station, on the Amiens-Laon line, to replace switches, renew the rails throughout the station (2,660 m) and renew 330 m of track and ballast.
A project within the Atlantic perimeter
Two major projects are planned at Angoulême station for the renewal of the station’s north beam head. Agence Atlantique will be involved in the complete renewal of several double junction crossing units, the renewal of ballast, 444 metres of track and ballast renewal, 42 metres of R-rail renewal, as well as the ripening/raising of tracks 1 and 2 over a 198 metre stretch following the route studies.
This project will benefit from the support of Agence Caténaires Sud, FEROWAY and Térélian for the associated work to clean up the platform and hydraulic network.
A worksite in the South-East perimeter
The Champenoise teams will be mobilised at the entrance to Ambérieu-en-Bugey station, on the way to Lyon, a very busy track with a large marshalling yard. Their task will be to renew a cross-connection, enabling trains to switch from one track to another in all directions, at one of the main junctions in the Rhône-Alpes region.
The work will be divided into 3 distinct phases, running from May to October 2024.