A new milestone has been reached for the Grand Paris Express project, with teams from RATP laying the last 150 metres of track for line 14 north at the site of the future Saint-Denis Pleyel station.

Welding of the last rails of line 14 at Saint-Denis Pleyel station

This follows tunnel boring machine (TBM) Sarah arriving at the site last month by piercing the wall of the structure under a steel bell.

The TBM left the Agnès shaft in February 2022 and is now coming to the end of its shifting.

It will then be moved 700m to Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine to support the construction of a 1.6 km tunnel for line 15 East.

The Sarah tunnel boring machine during the dismantling of the bell and before the start of its shifting in September 2022

Construction of the Saint-Denis Pleyel station’s passenger building on Boulevard Ornano also continues in earnest, with work currently taking place across multiple levels.

The extended line 14 is scheduled to be commissioned in 2024. Once complete it will link Orly Airport to Saint-Denis Pleyel in just 40 minutes.

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