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The Turin–Lyon high-speed railway is an international rail line under construction between the cities of Turin and Lyon, [1] [2] which is intended to link the Italian and French high-speed rail networks. [3] It will be 270 km (170 mi) long, of which over 100 km (62 mi) will be tunneled.
The Turin–Lyon line will connect Turin, Lyon and Chambéry, and join the Italian and the French high speed rail networks. It would take over the role of the current Fréjus railway . The project costs €26 billion, with the Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel , a 57.5 km (35.7 mi) trans-alpine tunnel between Italy and France, costing €18.3 billion ...
Lyon Turin Ferroviaire (LTF), a subsidiary of Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) and Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), was the early developer of the joint French-Italian part of the future rail link between Lyon and Turin. It has now been replaced in that role by Tunnel Euralpin Lyon Turin (TELT), with the same staff and leadership.
There are international airports at Lyon, Grenoble and Saint-Étienne and many other minor airports and airfields. The region is also a transport hub for the rail-network with the TGV running through Lyon from Paris and the north, to the Mediterranean. A trans-national, high-speed rail-link is projected from Lyon to Turin.
Modane is the border station on the Turin-Lyon main line (Fréjus Tunnel line). Domodossola is the border station of the Milan-Bern/Geneva main line (Simplon Tunnel line). Ribellasca is on the Vigezzina. Luino is the border station of the Oleggio–Pino railway. Chiasso is the border station of the Milan-Zürich main line (Gotthard Tunnel line).
The Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel, also known as the Mont Cenis Base Tunnel, [1] is the largest engineering work of the Lyon–Turin rail link project.Once completed, it will facilitate the principal high-speed rail link between Italy and France, conveying both high-speed passenger trains and rail freight between the two countries.
The Florence–Rome high-speed railway was the first high-speed line opened in Europe when more than half of it opened in 1977. In 2009 a new high-speed line linking Milan and Turin, operating at 300 km/h (186 mph), opened to passenger traffic, reducing the journey time from two hours to one hour.
The Turin Metropolitan Railway Service (Italian: Servizio Ferroviario Metropolitano), simply known as SFM, is a commuter rail system serving the metropolitan area of Turin, Italy. The system comprises 8 lines operated by Gruppo Torinese Trasporti and Trenitalia , serving 93 stations.