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Aug 01 2024

Frejus Railway to remain closed until early 2025

The main rail border crossing between Italy and France, the so-called Frejus Railway, has been closed for almost a year due to a landslide in August 2023. The timeline for a reopening has changed throughout time and now, once again, estimates claim that a full reopening won’t be possible until the first quarter of 2025.

 

“Despite a strong mobilization of the SNCF and Savoie Department teams, the date of the reopening of the link is not envisaged before the first quarter of 2025, and no longer in the autumn of 2024 as initially planned”, said La Transalpine Lyon-Turin on LinkedIn. Rumours about a possible delayed reopening to 2025 were already circulating in January.

 

Landslide area is not safe yet

The main reason behind the shifted timetable is that the operations to purge and secure the cliff of La Praz, where the landslide occurred, are more complicated than expected. The cavities found in the central area of the slope are quite unstable, meaning that additional work is needed to make it safe again. Until this process is complete, it will be impossible to start fixing the infrastructure. Read more

 

Source: RAILFREIGHT.COM