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title: Cross-border service reopens with SYSTRA
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# Cross-border service reopens with SYSTRA

![Cross-border service reopens with SYSTRA](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/21e3a0f297ac512a3c44910019841b.png)

Getting from Belfort to Delle via the Belfort-Montbéliard TGV (high speed train)
station in less than half an hour has been possible since 9th December. Even
better news, the citizens of Belfort can now reach the TGV station in only 10
minutes, and thus reach Strasbourg, Lyon or Paris more quickly with the
Rhine-Rhône high speed line.

In total, 38 daily journeys are available between France and Switzerland, from
Belfort to Delémont, of which 10 return trips between Belfort and Delle during
the rush hour. 22km long, the new line serves seven stops that are entirely
accessible by people with reduced mobility and operates seven days a week,
intermittently from the first departure at 4.48am until the last at 10.48pm.

![Portes ouvertes sur la ligne Belfort-Delle le samedi 8 décembre 2018, (90)](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dsc_3866-compresse.jpg)

To enable this achievement, around 10 SYSTRA experts worked from 2011 on the
project management of the works’ design and execution phases. Our assignment was
for the design then the monitoring of the line’s complete revamping (platform,
infrastructure, hydraulic network, signalling, telecommunications and track) as
well as its entire electrification. Going into more detail, this represents 20km
of electrified and refurbished line, six new or readapted stops, 17 renovated
structures, three new footbridges adapted for people with reduced mobility,
three new computerised switching stations, 13 level crossings secured and
automated, and six others removed.

“This project had a triple objective: to reinforce daily mobility, reintroduce a
railway link with Switzerland, and provide access to the high speed network from
Belfort and the neighbouring Swiss cantons”, said Antoine Henn, project director
in the France Region (NEN). “With the achievement of this triple objective, the
new Belfort-Delle line will help increase the share of rail in cross-border and
suburban journeys. All the SNCF and SYSTRA players, working in the same office
in Meroux, have reached the goal. Well done to all those who contributed to this
wonderful project.”

![Portes ouvertes sur la ligne Belfort-Delle le samedi 8 décembre 2018, (90)](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dsc_3572-compresse.jpg)

## France Region at the heart of several major renovation projects

2018 has been rich in conventional rail projects. Two lines were reopened, in
spring between Avranches and Dol-de-Bretagne, then in summer the ‘Train des
Merveilles’ (Train of Wonders) between Cuneo and Ventimiglia.

At the same time, several projects were won in Normandy, between Serqueux and
Gisors, as well as between Beauvais and Le-Tréport – Mers-les-Bains. The railway
tracks at the Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne station were also revamped at the start of
the TELT project.

Teams are also busy working on several sites, among which the Donges bypass in
Brittany and the electrification of the line between Gretz and Troyes, where the
works phase has just begun.

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