An electrical incident occurred around noon this Sunday, September 24 between Paris and Tours. High-speed train traffic is severely disrupted in the southwest.
It’s a power supply fault at the Massy TGV station between Paris and Tours which caused chaos this Sunday for thousands of travelers, causing delays on the Paris-Bordeaux-Hendaye Atlantic axis and the Paris-Poitiers-Niort-La Rochelle axis more or less important.
Big problem at Montparnasse station which impacted several regional stations in New Aquitaine.
At Poitiers station, several travelers are getting impatient. It’s 4:30 p.m. and a young woman still hasn’t been able to board a train for Paris.
We have been stuck at Poitiers station for an hour, and the SNCF tells us that our train will be at least three hours late. At two hundred euros a ticket, it’s starting to get expensive…
Sabrina, a traveler at Poitiers station
at France 3 Poitou Charentes
Poitiers station, Sunday September 24, showed numerous delays to Paris and Bordeaux following an electrical incident. • © France 3 Poitou-Charentes
Some travelers complain of being informed every half hour of train delays. The SNCF told them on site that a train was stuck in a tunnel in Massy (Essonne). “There have already been a lot of delays on the platform, and now we have just learned that there had been malicious acts, plus trains stuck in tunnels, so now we are more than three hours away cumulative delays. Furthermore, I find that the prices are completely exorbitant, so it is very disappointing, comments Sébastien, interviewed by France 3 Poitou-Charentes.
I find that there are more and more problems and that tickets are more and more expensive. I feel that there are more and more delays and I am going to opt for alternative means such as the plane or the car rather than the train which seemed to me to be the safest until now.
Sébastien, SNCF user
to France 3 Poitou-Charentes.
“No trains canceled, but traffic is reduced to a single track”according to the SNCF that we were able to contact and which announced at midday delays ranging from 30 to 60 minutes from the capital, and from thirty minutes to two hours on arrival at Montparnasse station. “The technical teams are on site and working to restore traffic as quickly as possible”.
On social networks, travelers indicate more than two hours of delay, and even up to five hours of delay between Paris and La Rochelle. At 5:30 p.m., the biggest delay announced was 3:40 a.m. (OUIGO 7664 on the Paris – Poitiers – Niort – La Rochelle route).
Traffic is scheduled to resume at 6:30 p.m. according to the SNCF.com website.
At 6:30 p.m., SNCF du Sud-Ouest confirmed the gradual resumption of traffic, with further delays expected in the evening. At 7:30 p.m., delays of between 10 and 45 minutes were still posted on the lines in our region.
As the day went on, the delays seemed to intensify. Thus, a Ouigo train which was to leave Paris at 12:47 p.m. for Quimper, was announced four hours late. The TGV to Bordeaux has a 2.5 hour wait. And the SNCF indicated canceled trains such as the Ouigo train from Nantes at 3:48 p.m.
Passengers heading to La Rochelle were still stuck at Poitiers station at the end of the day.
Bordeaux Saint-Jean station Sunday September 24. Travelers are happy to arrive safely after numerous delays on the Paris-Bordeaux route. • © France 3 Aquitaine
At 5:30 p.m., everyone trains departing from Paris to Bordeaux were at least two hours late. “I come from Paris and I was only forty minutes late, I was lucky! Because some travelers saw their train completely canceled”, says a traveler on France 3 Aquitaine. Also relieved was this young man who returned from a trip to South America: “I was more than an hour late at Montparnasse, but I expected worse. And then I was able to postpone my connecting train, so I’m doing well.”
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