However, the train had left on time: 5:45 p.m., to arrive in the early evening at 9:30 p.m. But once arrived at Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, near Tours, the train suddenly stopped after “an electrical problem on the track”, confides one of the passengers daily. The driver announced that a repair team was arriving on site and that the repair might take some time. Result: “the car suddenly emptied”, she testifies.
Arrival at 1 a.m.
After 3h30 of immobilization in the station, the train finally restarted around 11 p.m. to arrive at Nantes station at 1 a.m. To wait in the station, the SNCF distributed meal boxes to the last passengers on the platform. The company has just launched classic Ouigooffering low prices on the Paris-Nantes and Paris-Lyon lines, old coral trains revamped in pink and blue.
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