Departing from Clermont-Ferrand station at 5:37 p.m., this Monday, November 1, the Intercités 5982 was only announced with a slight delay of barely five minutes … Finally, the SNCF went to at least three hours, initially indicating that the train was struck by animals.
Scoop: the intercity Clermont – Paris on time at the start (yes, yes) hit by a horde of wild boars. Delay to be expected… Predictions to bet for the arrival time on betbidule and fd… to win 220 million as in the euromillion
– François FARGIER (@FrancoisFargier)
November 1, 2021
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Reduced to one hour and twenty minutes during the evening, the time limit was then passed to three hours and thirty minutes. This time, it is a question of a power supply fault.
“We collided with a herd of wild boars then a catenary is now broken at Fontainebleau … We do not yet have much information, we were told that we will soon have no more electricity”
A passenger (aboard 5982)
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Passengers should not reach Bercy before half past midnight.
The arrival of this Intercités scheduled for 8:57 p.m. delayed, the following Clermont-Paris (5986) will not be in the capital at 9:57 p.m. as expected. The SNCF also mentions a fault in the power supply and expects an arrival in the capital at midnight and thirty-seven minutes.
Nightmarish night for 1,200 travelers
In a tweet published at 12:20 am, the SNCF did not announce good news to travelers still stranded somewhere in the Île-de-France countryside: “Following the diagnosis of the teams on site, the track on which the Intercités 5986 is parked will not be able to be replenished with electricity. We are going to route another train from Melun to carry out a transshipment to take charge of the passengers. “
Two Paris-Clermont-Ferrand trains are more than three hours late
Same causes, same effects for the last Intercités of the day, the 5990: more than three hours late for this train which left Clermont-Ferrand at 19:32. It was not far from 4:00 in the morning when the users ( finally) could arrive in the capital.
In total, 1,200 passengers, spread over the three trains, were affected by these delays. Highlight of a night of galley since some spent more than 9 hours in the train: instead of arriving at Bercy, the terminus had to be Gare de Lyon.
Malik Kebour
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