- Lyon Turin Alpine access (APD):
The Lyon-Chambéry-Turin Alpine Access project will link France to Italy via the Alps, with the construction of 140 km of new line between Lyon and Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. This new route will link up with the future international tunnel under the Alps, due to open in 2032.
The European Commission is to provide €64.5m in funding for the final preliminary design studies (APD) for the construction of the French accesses to the Lyon-Torino rail link.
- New Montpellier Perpignan Line:
The line between Montpellier and Perpignan is the only missing link in the high-speed network between Seville and Amsterdam. The aim of this project is to complete this missing link in the TEN-T and the Mediterranean corridor.
€22.5 million has been awarded for the preliminary design studies (AVP) for phase 1, Montpellier-Béziers, and the preliminary studies (EP) for phase 2, between Béziers and Perpignan. The European Commission had already allocated €6.5m to this project in the previous call.
- Major South-Western rail project
The new Bordeaux-Toulouse and Bordeaux-Dax lines (327 km in total) are the main operation of the Major South-Western rail project (GPSO) on the Bordeaux-Toulouse and Bordeaux-Spain routes. This programme integrates the challenges of long-distance mobility and everyday transport.
€19.1m has been allocated to finance studies on the new Dax-Spain line and part of the rail upgrade works to the south of Bordeaux (AFSB). During the last call for proposals, the European Commission already granted €35.2 million for the New Line section and €27.18 million for the rail upgrade project operations to the south of Bordeaux.
The Roissy-Picardy rail link will improve daily travel to the Roissy hub from Picardy and the north-east of the Val d'Oise. It will improve access from the south of Hauts-de-France to the TGV network and the Île-de-France region. The project involves the creation of a new 6.5 km section of track running at 160 km/h, and improvements to the stations at Survilliers-Fosses, Roissy and Amiens. The works began in the first quarter of 2024.
The European Commission has awarded €10.374 million for works at Roissy station.
SNCF Réseau is studying the possibility of extending the facilities at Le Boulou freight station by building a new set of sidings and connecting them to the Figueras-Perpignan line (LFP). The aim of this upgrade is to increase the proportion of goods transported by rail through Le Boulou.
€4.5 million has been allocated to preliminary design studies (AVP) for the freight complex and preliminary studies (EP) for the connection to the Perpignan-Figueras line.
- ETCS equipment: BB60000 locomotives
€1.89m has been awarded by the European Commission for the retrofit of BB60000 maintenance locomotives to be deployed on the Marseille-Ventimiglia line as part of the Marseille-Ventimiglia High Performance (HPMV) project.
In 2021, an initial call for proposals resulted in the funding of 4 SNCF Réseau projects for a total of more than €36 million. In the CEF 2022 call for proposals, the French infrastructure manager received €126m to fund 5 projects.