Line 15 East - Over night between the 6th and 7th of October, the head of TBM Sarah (almost 150 t) was transferred from the Finot structure in Saint-Ouen to the Agnes shaft in Aubervilliers, where the machine was reassembled. The TBM will restart in 2022 to build the 2.4 km tunnel toward Finot for Line 15 East .
Line 18 - At the end of Grand Paris Express ‘s open day on the 16/10/2021 at the KM9 site the second TBM that will excavate the tunnels of Line 18 was christened. As per tradition, the TBM has been named after a woman: this time its Caroline Boujard, rugby player for the French national team, selected for the 2022 World Cup and originally from Massy.
In December the TBM will start from the Marechal Leclerc shaft and it will drive about 6 km up to the Pistes d'Orly facility. For further and more detailed information please click here, here and fr/127 for the tunnelbuilder archive. Visit https://www.societedugrandparis.fr. 42/21.
