Europorte Infrastructures Socorail
Expertise, service quality, and competitiveness
As a natural extension of its traditional business and know-how, Europorte Infrastructures Socorail has developed a delegated management offering for rail infrastructure.
Europorte Infrastructures Socorail is the commercial brand of the Europorte group specializing in the maintenance and management of rail infrastructure.
Created in 2011, it operates on more than 810 km of track, including private sidings (ITE), branch lines managed under delegation from SNCF Réseau, and port railways. Europorte Infrastructures Socorail oversees the maintenance and upkeep of track on 7 of the 9 main French ports.
In carrying out these activities, Europorte Infrastructures Socorail applies the highest safety and quality standards.
Our activities:
- Maintenance and traffic management on major ports, capillary RFN lines, and private sidings across 810 km of track
- Work on catenary systems, switches, level crossings, and engineering structures
- Rail engineering and audits
Operations
- Rail traffic management carried out in compliance with current regulations, along with handling of all operational reference documents
- Custom operation management tools developed by our teams: optimized traffic planning on a network, interface with the national rail network (RFN), real-time personalized monitoring through an innovative web application, and reporting tailored to the customer’s needs
- Expert teams: skills monitoring and management, reactivity and flexibility, drafting of operating safety regulations (RSE) and local instructions
Railway track maintenance
- Expertise across all infrastructure disciplines: track, signaling, catenary
- Definition and execution of maintenance plans
- Maintenance engineering and emergency documentation
- Management of rail competencies tailored to each client and compliant with STI/OPE rules for the relevant networks
- Drafting of Safety Management Systems (SMS)
- Assistance with project management and project supervision
- Preventive, systematic, and conditional maintenance of switches, catenary systems, level crossings, engineering structures, and electrical and mechanical signaling equipment
- Work acceptance and inspection
- Stock of safety-critical parts (3,000 references, including 2,000 in stock)
- CMMS providing relevant performance indicators
Rail engineering: audit, consulting, expertise
- Infrastructure audits: assessment, contradictory audit, asset condition review
- Innovative measurement tools: loaded track geometry measurement wagon; S3M, a system for capturing measurement data and optimizing maintenance
- Drafting of Safety Management Systems (SMS)
- Experts at your service to streamline maintenance with strong adaptability while ensuring safety (track, catenary, signaling, etc.)
Capillary network management activity
Since 2018, Europorte Infrastructures Socorail has been expanding its maintenance activity on capillary networks (small railway lines serving industrial sites or agricultural silos). Europorte has already won tenders in the following regions:
- South-West region: the Bec d’Ambes line (16 km) and the Laluque Tartas line (13 km)
- Hauts-de-France region: the Saint-Quentin Origny line (28 km) and the Berry-au-Bac to Guignicourt line (5 km)
- Four lines in the Grand Est region: 67 km between Esternay and Oiry, 8 km between Verdun and Dugny, 28 km from Neufchâteau to Gironcourt, and 20 km between Pont-Saint-Vincent and Rosières
The SOCORAIL Brochure
Discover the detailed brochure of the rail infrastructure management services.
800 km
of track managed and maintained, including 86 km electrified (catenary)
530
level crossings managed and maintained across the rail networks
7
French maritime and river port rail networks
50
customers served
throughout France
Track works and maintenance
- Track works and maintenance
- Execution of rail works on urban networks, national networks, and industrial sites with our partner RENOFER.
- Rail treatment and track works with our partners ELECTROFER and TRACK SOLUTION GROUP
Example of an intervention by our partner GIRAVERT
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Experienced in specialized railway works across the country, Electrofer specializes in rail treatment, as well as the maintenance and renewal of tramway, metro, and tram-train track equipment.
Experts in railway infrastructure, Renofer carries out construction, renovation, and maintenance works to successfully deliver your project anywhere in France.
Three specialized companies in:
- Rail works on the national rail network (RFN) and private sidings (ITE)
- Audits and engineering
- Crane tracks and overhead crane runways
