Operating company Tisséo commissioned Vossloh under a three-year framework agreement to carry out preventive maintenance on Toulouse’s 34-km tram network. The first grinding deployments took place in the summer of 2017. On the basis of the first campaign’s convincing results, further grinding deployments have been planned for the entire tram network in the years to come. Tisséo has the option of extending the three-year framework agreement twice by one year each time.
Toulouse’s Tisséo is the first French operator to entrust the maintenance of its tram tracks to Vossloh’s High Speed Grinding (HSG) procedure. Vossloh machined Toulouse’s entire tram network in only eight nights from late June to early July 2017. Tisséo was impressed with the innovative HSG technology and the service package that accompanied the deployment, particularly due to the fact that the rails were ground at an unprecedented average speed of over 20 km/h.
“We contracted Vossloh after receiving a very attractive proposal in response to our public invitation to tender. This offer allows us to grind our entire network regularly and in the coming years we expect to see an improvement in the rail surface and a reduction in noise emissions,” Jean-Louis Huillet, who is responsible for tram system infrastructure at Tisséo, said.
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