LGV high-speed East-European train in France (2004-2007)
Colas Rail in a venture with TSO built a 200-km section of rail (400 km of track) on the LGV high-speed East-European train that now puts Paris at only 2 hours and 20 minutes from Strasbourg.
Several Colas road companies (Colas Ile-de-France – Normandie, Screg Ile-de-France – Normandie, Colas Est, Screg Est) also carried out conventional civil engineering work on the LGV high-speed Est-European train.
KEY FIGURES
- 300 km of lines (600 km of track)
- 335 engineering structures
- 1,288 kilometers of rail
- 1 million crossties
- 78,000 tons of steel
- 3.1 million tons of ballast
- 80 rail devices (switches)
Installing track on the LGV high-speed East-European line
Click on the images below to view large format.
