This Thursday, the SNCF counted several dozen incidents caused by storm Ciaran, “mainly related to falling trees and branches that broke off and fell on the tracks or catenaries,” the public group indicated.
TER traffic will be interrupted throughout the day on Thursday in Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Normandy, Centre-Loire Valley and Hauts-de-France. TGVs run only between Paris and Rennes, Paris and Tours, and Paris and Lille in the affected regions, without reaching intermediate stations.
Incidents in Ile-de-France
Incidents were also recorded in Ile-de-France and “to a lesser extent in Aquitaine-Poitou-Charentes and Lorraine-Champagne-Ardenne,” according to the SNCF.
In Ile-de-France, traffic was preventively interrupted on part of the RER A and Transilien lines that serve the west of the region.
In several places trees fell on the tracks, but mainly in places where traffic had been cut off. The fall of a tree on the RER D track caused delays and disruptions, but not the interruption of the service.
The SNCF mobilized “almost 4,000 SNCF Réseau officers and 150 reconnaissance trains to identify the damage and repair the damaged catenaries, clear and clean the tracks,” the group said. The resumption of traffic is scheduled for Friday, but the SNCF is assessing the damage to see if the network can be reopened everywhere.
Eurostar, which now includes Thalys, expects “disruptions on all lines” on Thursday. The SNCF subsidiary foresees “a significant impact” for its trains with delays and cancellations.
Source: BFM TV
