On April 1, 2024, at the Saint-Martin-la-Porte construction site (CO7), the red Savoy tunnel boring machine (TBM) Viviana was officially launched. This marks the beginning of excavation for ...
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RFI - Turin-Lyon: legality protocol signed for the construction of the Italian section
On 18 October 2024, the Legality Protocol was signed between the Prefecture of Turin, Rete Ferroviaria ...
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The European Commission has announced the funding distribution for projects benefiting from the third edition (2024-2027 period) of the CEF, the EU’s programme for strategic investments in ...
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Press release - For the first time, the Villarodin-Bourget/Modane underground construction site, where part of the Mont Cenis base tunnel, at the centre of the new Turin-Lyon railway line, is ...
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On February 29th, 2024 the fifth of the seven TBMs for the new Lyon-Turin railway line was delivered to the French-Italian group of companies ELYOT, consisting of Eiffage Génie civil ...
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On December 21st, 2023, at the Herrenknecht factory in Germany, the delivery ceremony was held for the first Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) that will traverse the border between France and Italy for ...
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The official commencement of the excavation for the Italian section of the Mont Cenis base tunnel, a pivotal part of the Turin-Lyon railway line, began on December 18, 2023, in Val di Susa. ...
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On 27/11/ a third TBM was completed at the Herrenknecht AG plant. The TBM is 10.5 m in diameter, 2000 tonnes in weight and 180 m long. It will excavate an 8.3 km section of TELT's Turin-Lyon base ...
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A new TELT TBM - 10.5 m diameter, 264 t weight, 180 m length, for the Lyon-Turin new line unveiled on October 6th, 2023 at the Herrenknecht AG plant! It will work on the CO6/7 site for the Mont ...
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The companies together with the public promoter witnessed the trials of the machine that will excavate the next 9 km beneath Mont Cenis.
Schwanau (DE), 7 July 2023 - The first of the ...
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Today July 7th 2023 the FAT test for the first Telt TBM S-1355 built by Herrenknecht is complete. The 10.415m TBM will drive the 9km North tube from St Martin la PORTE to La Praz, parallel to ...
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PRESS RELEASE - New tenders, with an estimated value of EUR3 billion, are on the way to build the Mont Cenis base tunnel which is under construction beneath the Alps between France and Italy.
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On April 20 in Brussels , TELT will outline what it needs for the last operational phase (rail and technological equipment) for the Mont Cenis base tunnel, which is an essential part of the ...
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The Lyon-Turin base tunnel in France has now commenced excavation in Saint-Julien-Montdenis on construction site n.08 in Villard-Clément. Almost 3 km of tunnels will join the 10.5 km already ...
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With the completion of excavation of the first 10.5 km of the even-numbered tube of the Mont Cenis Base Tunnel between Saint-Martin-la-Porte and La Praz (in the direction of Paris) - the ...
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Press release - Among the various special initiatives that uniquely characterize the SAIE 2022, the Construction, Design, Building and Plants’ Fair - in BolognaFiere from 19 to 22 October, ...
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On the 28/04/2022 at Saint-Martin-la-Porte, in Val Maurienne, France excavation of the first 10.5 km of the Turin-Lyon base tunnel has now been completed:- click here for a video. At around 11:00 ...
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The invitation to tender for construction of electrical and lighting installations, piping, data connection cables, control units, etc. for the visitor centre at the Turin-Lyon construction site in ...
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Paris, 7 July 2021–The TELT board of directors, which met today online between Rome and Paris, has given the go-ahead for the signing of contracts ...
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2021 marks a key year for the strengthening of the transport sector, a year in which the commitment to the future of new generations can have a tangible effect.
Environment, ...
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Today 07/07/2021 at 12h30 there is a live streaming press conference organized by APE (Association de la Presse Etrangère) in Paris, ’Associazione della Stampa Estera (Italy) and TELT - ...
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The European Union is re-evaluating its contribution to the new Turin-Lyon railway line in order to increase it to 55%. At the end of March 2021, the Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) of ...
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The French and Italian governments, in accordance with the agreements between the two countries in their Articles of Association, have appointed the members of Tunnel Euralpin Lyon Turin - ...
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The hot water collected during excavation of the Chiomonte base tunnel will become a source of clean, sustainable energy for its construction site. This geothermal resource will then be made ...
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With over 55 live tenders for construction/development of new tunnels in just Spain, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium at the time of writing this, it is safe to say that tunnel construction/ ...
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On September 23rd , 2019 the TBM Federica (diameter 11.26 m, length 125 m, weight 2400 t) built by the French company NFM Technologie , completed the excavation of the first 9 km section between ...
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France is firmly committed to the new Lyon-Turin line
project, which should contribute to the shift from road to rail for freight
traffic crossing the Franco-Italian Alps and thus reduce the ...
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On the 11th of March 2019 the board of TELT, the
Italian-French company building the tunnel for the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail
link, approved the call for tenders for the tunnel, on the French ...
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The excavation of the French Saint-Martin-la-Porte
construction site (SMP4) with the Fedrica TBM exceeded 77% of the 9 km planned
by the end of February. Also in February, the target of 30 m/day ...
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Paris, 19 February 2019 - The Board of Directors of TELT (the public promoter entrusted by Italy and France with the construction of the cross-border section of the Lyon-Turin railway line), ...
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When finished, the tunnel on the Lyon-Turin train line is expected to stretch for nearly 60 kilometers across the French-Italian border"
When finished, the tunnel on the Lyon-Turin train line is ...
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Turin/Lyon - Before the end of the Summer 2018 the tenders for the French section of the base tunnel TELT will be released. The bi-national co-operation program agreed by the two European Union ...
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On April 27th, the EPSF (Public Railway Safety
Establishment) approved the preliminary safety file concerning the
infrastructure of the cross-border section, in application of Decree 2006-1279
on ...
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In Saint Martin La Porte the South tube heading in an Easterly direction has been excavated using traditional methods and has reached 10km. at the front the coal formation are mostly composed of ...
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November 13-16 2017 will see leading international specialists in the global tunnelling sector attend the AFTES Congress in Paris which will include a special one-day event: November 15 will be ...
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On 22.05.2017 the first stage of the “TELT at Work” roadshow was held in Turin. TELT is a project that covers the cross-border works for the Lyon-Turin railway line. The TELT ...
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