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The ETF (Grands Projets Urbains) teams, working in partnership with Eurovia (Gironde), took advantage of the summer lull in traffic to connect the future extension to the existing line. Nearly 70 operational staff worked in shifts over a nine-week period to complete this major project.

For six days, from 26 October to 1 November 2021, ETF Centre/Île-de-France teams specialising in urban works mobilised to renew a track assembly at Château de Vincennes station on line 1 of the Paris Metro.

Since 20 September 2021, teams from the ETF Caténaires et Energie agency, supported by ETF Academy (Feroway), have been running a training course dedicated to the installation of the PAC (Profil Aérien de Contact) system. For this occasion, 12 candidates were specially recruited in association with GEIQ Ile de France, an employer group for integration and qualification.

ETF teams mobilised in September during two intensive weekends at Evreux station (27) to replace track equipment and part of the track. This operation is part of the Vigirail 2021 programme for our client, SNCF Réseau.

Customised equipment in action on the Line 14 South extension project (GrandParis). ETF teams have invested in two tunnel excavators and two Multi-Service Vehicles (MSVs).

For many years, the SMMAG (Syndicat Mixte des Mobilités de l’Aire Grenobloise)has been financing the Gros Entretien des Voies de Tramway (GEVT) project. These preventive and corrective works ensure the long-term viability of the Grenoble tramway, the second modern network to open in France in 1987. As part of the 2020/2021 contract, the project managers INGEROP (infrastructure) and Egis (railway works) called on Eurovia Alpes and ETF respectively to carry out the necessary work.

Ten years after participating in the construction of the first section of Cairo Metro Line 3, ETF Egypt teams are carrying out four months of preventive maintenance work to ensure the long-term viability of the section of track already in service.

La ovation on the T1 tram line at the Noailles tunnel in the heart of Marseille. The ETF teams were on hand to carry out this work, which was necessary to ensure the long-term future of this historic line (1876).

Les équipes de l’agence ETF Centre/Île-de-France, en groupement avec TSO, se sont mobilisées tout au loONG during the summer to successfully maintain 1,500 metres of track on the RER C line.

As part of the third edition of the Days for the Acceleration and Modernisation of Infrastructure (JAMI), Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Minister Delegate for Transport, visited Chatenay Malabry on Friday 23 July 2021 to see the construction site for the T10 tramway.

Take a look at six months of work on the TER line between Angoulême and Beillant. On Friday 9 July 2021, the 32 km of newly renovated track and ballast will once again welcome passengers.

On Wednesday, 7 July 2021, ETF, in partnership with Eurovia, welcomed Bordeaux city councillors to witness the first of 743 welds for the future extension.