2024-08-01 04:46:09
Paris-Milan has a very high speed, it will not be available again immediately. Work to clean a railway gallery affected by a large landslide last August in Maurienne (Savoie) has fallen behind schedule and will not be completed before the first quarter of 2025, the local authorities said Thursday.
Initially, SNCF hoped to reopen this connection with Italy, especially for freight and passengers, in the fall of 2024. But “the unstable cavities discovered in the central area of the slope (….) turned out to be much more than expected” and “will require additional handling, maintenance and installation of federal work”, according to a joint press release from region and department of Savoie and SNCF Réseau.
The opening of the railway line, below, “may take place in the first quarter of 2025 if no new geological risk occurs”, according to the same source.
For now, teams of specialized sea access engineers are working seven days a week at a height of more than 200 meters on this “unique site”, where “at any time stones or blocks may break loose and fall down”, press down. released
The provision of services and assistance for businesses and the local economy in the valley, and the tourists and tourists expected in the ski resorts this winter will also be activated or deepened, according to the same source .
Dozens of trains every day
A rock fell on August 27, 2023 near the village of Saint-André, burying the railway tunnel, about 300 meters long, under thousands of tons of rock. The neighboring A43 road, slightly damaged, was able to reopen quickly but the railway line and a branch road have since been cut. SNCF has set up a bus system to bypass this section of disruption and reach Italy.
Normally, the railway line connecting France and Italy welcomes around thirty international freight trains every day as well as five to six high-speed train journeys and services TER region to the Maurienne Valley.
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