Lyon Turin Ferroviaire subsidiary of Réseau Ferré de France

Réseau Ferré de France

Réseau Ferré de France , , owns and maintains the French national railway network. The trains are operated by SNCF, the national railway company, but due to European Union Directive 91/440, the French government was required to separate train operations from the railway infrastructure.Unlike other...

 (RFF) and Rete Ferroviaria Italiana

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana is an Italian company fully owned by Ferrovie dello Stato . RFI is the owner of Italy's railway network, it sets train paths, provides signalling, provides maintenance and other services for the railway network...

 (RFI), is the promoter of the joint French

France

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-Italian

Italy

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 part of the future rail link between Lyon

Lyon

Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

 and Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

.

The most important part of this planned line of more than 50 km is Mont d'Ambin base tunnel

Mont d'Ambin base tunnel

The Mont d'Ambin base tunnel is the largest engineering work of the Lyon-Turin rail link project. Reconnaissance work began on the French side in 2002 with the excavation of access points at Modane, then Saint Martin la Porte and La Praz ....

 between Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department....

 in France and the Susa Valley in Italy.

In November 2007, the European Commission granted 671.8 million euros (up to 30% of its total value) to the transborder section of the Lyon-Turin link through its multiannual TEN-T program (2007-2013).

This contribution of the EU lies within the global financing of 2,1 billions euros in favor of the transborder section of the Lyon-Turin for 2007-2013 period.
Italy and France bring the major part of these financing.

The operational start of the works for the cross-border section and the beginning of the excavation of the base tunnel is planned for 2013.

External links

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