Blog 2018 FROM GCF - Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie


Venice-Mestre: Installation of the new gantries has been completed

Venice-Mestre: Installation of the new gantries has been completed

A new ET system and a new look for the bridge over the lagoon

A new look for the Mestre - Venice S. Lucia bridge over the lagoon. GCF has just finished installing the new innovative gantries which not only support a completely new, more efficient overhead contact line, but also give a new sober, modern look to the bridge that leads to the most famous city of art in the world.

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GCF celebrates High Speed with Morocco

GCF celebrates High Speed with Morocco

Rabat-Agdal: inauguration of the station for modernity

Official inauguration of Rabat-Agdal Railway Station. His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, two days after the launch of the first high-speed train in the African continent, wished to celebrate the amazing new railway station of the Moroccan capital formally and personally by inviting the companies chosen by ONCF (Moroccan railways) to implement the project: Moroccan company TGCC (civil works) and the Generale Costruzioni Ferroviarie (entire range of technological works).

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Suite Rapide moves closer to its goal with its two C5 work sites

Suite Rapide moves closer to its goal with its two C5 work sites

Renewal work is in full swing for the last work sites in 2018

Another 160 kilometres of renewal work for the last two GCF work sites in France. Work on the fifth work site for 2018 has begun over the last few days in both Lots 2 and 3 of the TransalpRenouvellement consortium. It is now in full swing and involves two powerful Suite Rapide convoys recently boosted by the purchase of high performing trains and machinery.

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Dynamic track load weighing gets smart

Dynamic track load weighing gets smart

The innovative system developed by GCF together with the Sapienza University of Rome and Milan Polytechnic

Recently unveiled at Innotrans in Berlin, it aroused a great deal of general interest. Visitors to the trade fair were impressed by the fact that the Dynamic Weighting System, which is used to measure railway track loads and has been developed by the GCF R&D Department with collaboration from the Sapienza University of Rome and Milan Polytechnic, is accurate and reliable as well as lightweight, versatile and easy to install.

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Ance 2018: Made in Italy continues to grow

Ance 2018: Made in Italy continues to grow

GCF consolidates 15th place, ranking first among specialist companies

The first railway builder to represent Italy abroad. GCF takes fifteenth place overall in the 2018 national ranking drawn up by Ance in relation to penetration by Italian construction companies into world markets. GCF consolidates its role of excellence as a specialist in railway systems and a driving force behind economic development.

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