The passage of storm Eunice will cause severe disruption on regional rail lines.
Five departments have been placed on “wind orange alert” by La Chaîne Météo*: Manche, Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Seine-Maritime and Somme.
Strong gusts of wind are therefore expected on the French coast and could cause disruption on the railway lines in Hauts-de-France and Normandy.
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"Traffic will be interrupted from 12:00 p.m. on all TER lines in the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Somme regions"
, with the exception of lines linking Paris to Amiens, St-Quentin, Laon and Beauvais, learned AFP Thursday evening with the SNCF.
TGVs circulating on high-speed lines will not be affected, however the circulation of TGVs using conventional lines (Paris-Valenciennes, Paris-Dunkirk) will be interrupted, due to the risk of falling trees, indicated the SNCF.
In Normandy, traffic will be disrupted and the rail network closed to traffic from 12 noon.
The trains "
to and from Paris-Saint-Lazare will terminate in Caen, Rouen and Deauville-Trouville"
, it was indicated.
The estimated resumption of traffic is scheduled for Saturday,
"after checking the condition of the lines and any repairs to the damage caused"
.
The circulation of Thalys trains between Paris and Brussels will not be affected, but connections from Brussels to the Netherlands were all canceled on Friday, a spokeswoman for Thalys told AFP.
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As the storm risks damaging telephone and electricity networks, and locally disrupting air or rail transport, several prefectures have called for activities likely to entail risks to be postponed and for information to be obtained before any travel.
Devices have also been activated for homeless people, with two gymnasiums made available to migrants in Dunkirk and a hangar in Calais.
The passage of the Dundley storm killed 5 people in Europe on Thursday.
