In collaboration with their client SNCF Réseau and two manufacturers, COLAS RAIL and TSO CATENAIRES industrialised catenary renewal works with a major innovation: high output renewal trains.

Colas was awarded two contracts by the RATP* following requests for proposals to build a 3.2-km extension of the T3 tram line between the current Porte d’Asnières terminus and Porte Dauphine as part of the Grand Paris Project.

Colas Rail Algeria carried out the repair and replacement of the escalators of extension B of the Algiers Metro for its client, the Entreprise du Métro d’Alger. The four stations that make up extension B of the Algiers Metro include a total of 24 escalators, 8 of which needed to be repaired and 5 completely replaced. The project was carried out over a period of two years, with final delivery in May 2021.

Colas Rail has won two contracts as part of the construction project for the new lines T3 and T4 of the Casablanca tramway in Morocco.

SNCF Réseau awarded Colas Rail a contract for the renewal of the track between the Septèmes-les-Vallons and the Marseille Saint-Antoine stations in France, for a total of 2.5 million euros. Colas Rail will renew the track to the south of the Septèmes-les-Vallons station to eliminate noise pollution, rework on a switch at the station, as well as perform hydraulic works around the tracks.

As part of the Marigold Infrastructure Partners consortium, Colas (managing partner) and Parsons Inc. have been selected by the City of Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) to design, build and finance the Valley Line West LRT project. The contract value amounts to 1.7 billion Canadian dollars (approximately €1 billion), divided as a 50/50 partnership with Colas as the lead.

Back pain is the leading cause of sick leaves in France.

As part of an alliance with Colas, Colas Rail (leader) signed a contract with SNCF Network for the renewal of the tracks and platforms between the French cities of Beillant and Saintes, for a total amount of 11 million euros.

In August 2020, Colas Rail, the Colas Group subsidiary specialized in Railways, signed a contract with Mosaic Transit Group for the track construction of the Metrolinx Finch West Light Rail Transit (LRT) project in Toronto, Canada.

On August 16th, President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, the Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli and the Minister of Transports Kamel El Wazir inaugurated the phase 4B of the line 3 of the Cairo metro project. Cairo’s inhabitants can now enjoy 6 additional stations.