Notice to travelers: already marked by a complete shutdown at the end of January following a fire on cables in Seine-et-Marne, the Parisian East station will be “
strongly impacted
” this weekend, warns the SNCF.
Significant disruptions are to be expected, on all the networks that cross this place, on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 February.
Work will thus disrupt traffic at the Paris station this Friday from 11 p.m. until Sunday at the end of the day.
And there will be many disruptions.
First, the
TGVs
departing from and arriving at the Paris station to the east of France, Germany and Luxembourg will be interrupted.
Arrivals and departures scheduled for that day "
will be exceptionally insured at Paris Nord station
", announces the SNCF, specifying however that only 60% of the TGVs of the usual offer will be able to circulate that weekend.
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Regarding the
TER
, traffic is interrupted in Châlons-en-Champagne and Paris Est.
However, replacement buses are in place.
RER
and
Transilien
are not spared.
RER E will not serve Haussmann Saint-Lazare station this weekend, and traffic will be suspended between Magenta and Chelles-Gournay all day Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 p.m.
On line P, trains will not run between Paris Est and Meaux on Saturday and between Paris Est and Château-Thierry all weekend.
Substitution buses are however provided, both for line E and for line P.
This work will take place between Bondy and Gagny, in Seine-Saint-Denis, as part of the modernization of the Ile-de-France rail network.
The railway group's teams will be "
engaged in a real race against time
", underlines SNCF Réseau in a press release: they will only have 41 hours to replace 260 meters of track.
The rail group invites its travelers to consult the information devices, and ensures that it does "
everything to inform and support travelers on public transport in the Ile-de-France
".
