It was one incident too many.
On Friday January 19, the 700 passengers boarding the Paris-Clermont-Ferrand Intercités at 7:57 p.m. were due to arrive in the Auvergne capital at 10:31 p.m.
Instead, they spent a difficult night on the train to arrive at their destination at 6 a.m.
Without heating or light.
The locomotive broke down in Nogent-sur-Vernisson (Loiret).
They barely received the distribution of survival blankets provided by the Red Cross.
Enough to reinforce the image of a cursed line for the Paris-Clermont: trains canceled, canceled or delayed, the 1.8 million annual passengers who take the Intercités on this route never cease to accumulate mishaps.
“
I am not proud of this service.
If we had invested on these lines ten or fifteen years ago, we would not have this kind of problem
,” admitted Jean-Pierre Farandou, CEO of SNCF, on Wednesday morning at the National Assembly.
But, at the time, there was only enough for the whole TGV.
To put Strasbourg…
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