Line 15 South -  On the 08/12/20, after a 4 km drive between the Robespierre shaft (in Bagneux) and Fort d ' Issy - Vanves - Clamart, TBM Ellen began driving a further 700 m section of the Grand Paris Express from the Robespierre shaft to  Arcueil – Cachan station

TBM Ellen was brought to a halt for the Christmas holidays, and it will be stopped again in January once the first 100 m of this shaft has been dug. This will be to allow for a technical reconfiguration of the route. TBM Ellen is scheduled at the Arcueil – Cachan station towards the end of the 1st quarter of 2021. It will be disassembled and returned to Germany.  

Line 14 - Although the digging of the tunnel for the southern extension of line 14 is only a few hundred meters from its end. The North side of line 14 is now open this includes 5.8 km of additional tunnels and the opening of 3 new stations between Saint-Lazare and Mairie de Saint-Ouen. The commissioning of the fourth, Porte de Clichy, will be in early 2021. 

On 10/12/12 TBM Claire reached the Jean Prouvé shaft at L'Haÿ-les-Roses, its final  destination, it will now be dismantled and extracted. TBM Allison should reach the south of the Maison-Blanche Paris 13th station box in early 2021.  

Line 17 -  At the end of November 2020 the assembly of TBM Florence was completed. The assembly was carried out on the surface – not at the bottom of the starting launching shaft - by the JV Avenir. The TBM has to drive a tunnel on line 17, between the Flandres Shaft located in Bonneuil-en-France and the Rolland structure located at Le Bourget. This TBM will pass through the future Le Bourget Aéroport station.  

For further information please click here and fr/127 for the tunnelbuilder archive and also visit https://www.societedugrandparis.fr and https://prolongementligne14-orly.fr. 01/21.