Projects subsidised over the 2014-2020 period

Modernisation of the Étoile Ferroviaire Lyonnaise 

• This project aims to increase the capacity of the current infrastructure for passenger and freight services, and to build a sustainable and progressive investment plan over 20 years with the mobility stakeholders.  
• The financing of the project, which totals €310 million, involves several players: the European Union for €40 million (13%), the State for €110 million (36%), the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region for €110 million (36%), SNCF Réseau for €40 million (13%), and the Metropolis of Lyon and CNR for €10 million (2%).  
• Initiated in 2015, the project, which is divided into 32 operations, will strengthen the Lyon region’s rail network by 2025. 

https://www.etoileferroviairelyonnaise.fr/

The RER Sud-Léman

• An extension of the Léman Express, which has been in service since December 2019, the commissioning of Sud-Léman will complete the rail link around Lake Geneva. The line will link St Maurice to Geneva via the southern shore of Lake Geneva, on French territory. 
• The study phase which is beginning, for a total amount of €1.089 million, is financed to the tune of €508,000 by the ERDF fund. 
• The studies will take place in 2021 and 2022, with a consultation phase in the first half of 2022. 

The Lyon-Turin project

• The French section of the Lyon-Turin will link Lyon to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. It includes the creation of 140 km of new lines with the construction of several tunnels and viaducts and connections to the existing network.  
• On the basis of the forecast budget of €8.6 billion (updated in 2020), the European Union has declared itself ready to finance an exceptional share of 50 or even 55%. 
• The Lyon-Turin project is scheduled to come into service in 2030. 

https://www.projet-lyonturin.fr/

Modernisation of the Mulhouse railway junction 

• Mulhouse station (68) is a major rail hub in the Grand Est network, with regional, national and cross-border connections. This project, which will be completed in 2025, aims to improve train traffic, in terms of the capacity of the rail network at Mulhouse station and the quality of service for customers. 
• The total cost of the operation is estimated at €110.2 million, including €98.3 million in work co-financed by the European Union (study phase), the State, the Grand Est region and SNCF Réseau. European funding (via CEF, the trans-European transport infrastructure development programme): €24.6 million. 
• 2020-2021: modification work on the track layout and catenaries on the Strasbourg and Basel sides, as well as platform work. 2021-2023: signalling works. 2024-2025: commissioning of the connection to Central Network Control (CCR) and commissioning of the track and platform dedicated to the Mulhouse-Müllheim link. 

Lunéville station accessibility 

• SNCF Réseau is carrying out work to ensure access to the platforms for people with reduced mobility at Lunéville station (54). This work consists of raising and repairing the station’s three platforms.  
• This €4.6 million operation is co-financed by the European Union, the State and the Grand Est region. 
• Initiated in 2020, the work resumed from 10 May to 28 May 2021, at night. Accessibility will continue to be improved in the coming years with the construction of a footbridge equipped with lifts. 

Sarrebourg station accessibility 

• SNCF Réseau is carrying out work to ensure access to the platforms for people with reduced mobility at Sarrebourg station (57). These works consist of the installation of three lifts, the upgrading of platform 3 and the upgrading of the lighting on the station site. 
• The co-financiers are the State, the Grand Est region (€3.2 million and €2.9 million for the study phase) and the European Union (ERDF fund). 
• After a first phase of night and day work from 18 January to 17 April 2021, the second phase will take place from 21 June to 11 September 2021. 

Creation of a 4th track between Strasbourg and Vendenheim 

• The Strasbourg rail hub (67) is experiencing saturation problems. In order to increase the capacity of the northern sector, to meet the expectations of passengers and to accompany the regional economic vitality, a project for a 4th fast track of 8 km between Strasbourg and Vendenheim would make it possible to develop the rail offer and make it more attractive. 
• The project is supported by Europe (€25m), the State (€41m), the Grand Est region (€41m) and SNCF (€10m) for a total estimated cost of €117m.  
• Commercial operation will commence in 2022.  

Massy-Valenton line: improving Paris’s southern rail bypass 

• On Paris’s southern bypass line (Massy-Valenton), the configuration of the rail network is not optimised to accommodate the hundred or so trains running every day (TGV, RER C, freight trains): single-track connections on either side of the line with the high-speed network form bottlenecks. The improvements to the eastern and western sectors of the line will resolve the majority of the traffic problems encountered. 
• The total cost of the project (eastern and western sectors) was estimated at €217 million. The western sector is subsidised by Europe to the tune of €3 million for the detailed studies (PRO/DCE). 
• The eastern sector improvement project (work in progress) will enter into service in November 2021. The project to improve the western sector involves creating a new ’flying junction’ to eliminate traffic conflicts between TGVs and RERs, and creating a second track dedicated to TGVs to eliminate the conflicted crossings between TGVs travelling in opposite directions at Antony. The aim is to bring the project into service by the end of 2027. 

Uncrossing the tracks of groups 5 and 6 on the approach to Paris Saint-Lazare station 

• As part of the overall project to modernise the Paris-Le Havre route, this uncrossing will eliminate points (when one train cuts across the route of other trains) on the approach to Paris Saint-Lazare station. This operation will have an immediate effect on the regularity of Normandy and Ile-de-France region trains. To achieve this, it is planned to create a flying junction type engineering structure near Clichy-Levallois station. 
• Europe is supporting SNCF Réseau to the tune of around 2 million euros to facilitate the launch of detailed design studies for the flying junction.  
• These studies are scheduled to start in December 2021. 

Modernisation of the Serqueux-Gisors line 

• The modernisation of the Serqueux-Gisors line is intended in particular to make the ports of Normandy a privileged access point for goods from all over the world, and the Seine Axis a bridge between the international market, the Ile-de-France hub and continental Europe. 
• The work lasted more than three years, and was subsidised by the European Union to the tune of €71m under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) programme. 
• On 12 March 2021, SNCF Réseau teams put this route back into commercial service for goods traffic. TER traffic, which was interrupted during the works, resumed on 29 March 2021. 

https://modernisation.ligne-serqueux-gisors.fr/

Toulouse-Matabiau station 

• SNCF Réseau and Gares & Connexions aim to promote accessibility, develop intermodality and simplify the transition from one mode of transport to another in order to meet passengers’ expectations and develop the transport offer around Toulouse-Matabiau station. Improvements to the transport hub will eventually include the railway station, the car parks, the bus station, the various forecourts and access to the metro lines. 
• The total cost of the project is estimated at €350 million. In 2021, work will begin on the redevelopment of the station’s basements and ground floor, as well as preparations for the accessibility and widening of the northern underground. The latter project represents an investment of €30 million, of which €3.6 million is subsidised by Europe. This work will be completed at the end of 2023. 
• The preliminary works, initiated in 2019, concerned the boulevards, the drop-off area, the forecourt on the Canal du Midi side with access to the metro and restoration of the station’s historic façade, as well as the reorganisation of services on the station’s floors. The project is now continuing with the modernisation of the public spaces of the historic station and will be completed in 2030 with the extension of the multimodal transport hub on the other side of the railway platform, on the Marengo side. 

https://www.toulouse-grandmatabiau.fr/

Railway Upgrades North of Toulouse (AFNT) 

• Increasing the capacity of the Bordeaux-Toulouse line to accommodate new trains, improving traffic flow to the north of the pink city, improving the connection between the rail network and other public transport services in the conurbation: the AFNTs are a package of investments that will enable 19 km of line to be upgraded. 
• From the environment to administrative procedures, from signalling to adapting the infrastructure and invitations to tender to carry out works, SNCF Réseau presented a file of preliminary studies that convinced the European Commission to grant it its highest grant rate (50%). This support amounts to €11 million. 
• Detailed studies began in spring 2021.  

Central Control of the Marseille-Ventimiglia line  

• This project will improve regularity on the Marseille-Ventimiglia route, which is currently saturated. The line will be the hybrid ERTMS level 3 demonstrator for the French conventional network.  
• The project is already partly financed by the European Union (€11.9 million for technical studies).  
• The first section between Grasse-Cannes and Menton is scheduled to come into service by the end of 2026.   

New Provence Côte d’Azur Line (LNPCA) 

• This project, in its phases 1 and 2, is the structuring rail response to improving daily travel and desaturating the metropolitan areas of Aix-Marseille, Toulon, Nice and the Côte d’Azur. The public utility enquiry file on the perimeter of the operations identified in phases 1 and 2 is being prepared to launch this enquiry at the end of 2021.  
• The European Union is participating in the financing of all the studies prior to the public enquiry of the project. 
• The Marseille-Nice-Genoa railway route will be included in the Mediterranean Corridor of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). As such, projects such as LNPCA that are located on this structuring corridor will be eligible for European financial aid under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). 

https://www.lignenouvelle-provencecotedazur.fr/

Deployment of ERTMS on board trains   

• ERTMS is the European harmonised rail traffic management and signalling system. 
• In 2017, SNCF Réseau received a grant of €117 million linked to the CEF (Connecting Europe Facility) programme to finance the deployment of ERTMS on the Paris-Lyon high-speed line. 
• In February 2021, SNCF Réseau helped rolling stock owners submit a single French application to finance the ERTMS equipment of 252 vehicles running throughout France. A European grant of €31m was obtained, again as part of the CEF programme.