Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie: Highly specialized in railway construction work

Stand B70. Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie, experience that innovates

70 years of experience in the railway sector, in Italy and abroad. Hundreds of armouring, signalling and electrification sites. Men and means engaged in designing and performing renewal and restructuring activities, in building new railway or underground railway lines, in experimenting in the construction of more and more performing infrastructures.

Born from experience, “GCF’s catalogue” presents at Expo Ferroviaria, some of the most innovative solutions and projects for the railway sector.

GCF’s construction sites have opened for the first segment from Pristina to Macedonia

An official ceremony was held at the end of June, attended by the highest political authorities of Kosovo, to inaugurate the railway renewal project, one of the major infrastructural investments of the Balkan region. After a few weeks spent to execute preliminary studies, GCF’s construction site is now fully operational. Within two years, it will deliver a railway to Kosovo, fully rebuilt and truly “European”.

Excellent performances for the two Suite Rapide trains in France

The works of Lot 2 of Suite Rapide, involved along line 655,000 Bordeaux - Saint Jean Irun for the total renewal of almost 70 km of railway line, have resumed at full pace after the two weeks holiday in mid-August.

Photo report of Suite Rapide activity in Libourne

The lenses of Tony Daoulas, SNCF Réseau’s photographer, capture a series of photographs that tell the work phases of one of GCF - Transalp Renouvellement’s Suite Rapide construction sites. Opened in mid March and managed by Arthur Heine, the site had the goal to fully restore line 629000 in the section between the stations of the reference cities: Libourne and Bergerac.

GCF is attending the ninth edition of the sector’s top exhibition

Two years after opening in Milan, EXPO Ferroviaria returns to Rho Fiera Milano from October 1st to 3rd, the only Italian expo in terms of technology, products and railway systems.
GCF - Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie will attend the exhibition with the top companies of the national and international railway industry.

A new B45 adds to GCF’s high-efficiency train

In northern France, along railway line 321000 Amiens Rouen, in between Picardy and Upper Normandy, the summer construction site of GCF’s Suite Rapide - Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie - opens up.

GCF ends the new T.E that changes the skyline of Venice lagoon bridge

Ten months of construction site and 35,000 hours of night work to complete the mission entrusted to GCF and RFI: fully renew and boost the railway Electric Traction on the Liberty Bridge, the historic trans-lagoon connection that joins Venice to the mainland since 1845.

Restored also Saint Benoît – Vivonne section

Last week of work for the second construction site of Lot 3 of Suite Rapide, before a long break that, until the end of June, will allow Amiens’ site to provide maintenance services on vehicles and equipment.

Homologation underway for the catenary by GCF

Tests underway for the rigid catenary manufactured by GCF. The Company of Rossi Group, leader in the sector of railway assembly and electrification, is currently being certified in Italy and manufacturer and official installer of rigid catenary for use in tunnel.

GCF’s “workshop-train” at work on a regional line

Local media and online, as well as national TV broadcasters: the attention of information organs was captured in Aquitania by GCFs´Suite Rapide train that has been working since a few weeks, for the renewal of Bergerac – Libourne railway line. It is the first time in France that a powerful “workshop-train” is used on a regional line.