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Railway mayhem in the South-West: return to almost normal traffic

2020-09-01T11:15:09.313Z


A succession of technical incidents that occurred on Sunday blocked more than a thousand travelers during the night from Sunday to Monday.


Train traffic in the South-West returned to near-normal Tuesday morning after a succession of technical incidents on Sunday which caused long hours of hardship for more than a thousand travelers, we learned from the SNCF Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

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Repair work was finished overnight and TGV traffic resumed normally this morning,

" on the Hendaye-Bordeaux-Paris line, a spokesperson for SNCF in New York told AFP. Aquitaine.

However, “

marginal adaptations

” remained in the morning on TER lines, between Dax and Pau and Dax and Hendaye, “

security checks

” are still in progress, added SNCF Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

Sunday, for the last day of returning from vacation, a double train of the TGV 8538, carrying a thousand travelers from Hendaye to go to Paris, was blocked all night in the Landes, after an electrical incident.

By snowball effect, rail traffic was severely disrupted in this very touristy region.

In total, this succession of incidents mobilized more than 200 SNCF agents both to take charge of passengers and to carry out repairs.

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SNCF Voyageurs CEO Christophe Fanichet traveled to Nouvelle-Aquitaine on Monday evening "

to meet the teams and collect their feedback while awaiting the conclusions of the internal investigation

", according to SNCF Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

Source: lefigaro

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