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No improvement in sight Monday, for travelers to leave or arrive in Montparnbade: SNCF plans, as Sunday, to run one train in two, three days after the fire of a substation, but RTE announces that the power supply of the station will be restored earlier than expected, Tuesday evening at the latest.
"The work will be finished tomorrow morning, we can proceed to the electrical tests before commissioning tomorrow at midday If these tests are conclusive, we can restore food Monday afternoon, "said Sunday the President of RTE, François Brottes, at a press point.
" If they are not, we we can restore Tuesday at the end of the day, "he added.
This is a significant reduction in delays promised by the manager of the high-voltage network, which initially expected a recovery of power on Thursday. "We worked three times faster than usual," Brots told AFP.
The Issy-les-Moulineaux substation (Hauts-de-Seine), which supplies Montparnbade, was severely damaged Friday by a still unexplained fire, RTE dismissing a priori a voluntary act.
For its part the SNCF announced Sunday night predict a train on Monday, as Sunday, the capacity of circulation remains reduced as the recharge the station is not effective.
"As long as the current is not restored, we keep the same device," said a spokesman to AFP.
"Beyond power rolling trains, we must ensure their maintenance and ensure the comfort of travelers … and every day that pbades, we have more trains stored maintenance, "he said.
The maintenance workshop TGV trains near Montparnbade is, in fact, no longer supplied with electricity. 9659002] The SNCF had given notice to RTE to find a solution as soon as possible to allow normal operation of the Paris station, before the date of Thursday, August 2 announced at the beginning by the manager of the high-voltage network.
This announced deadline nearly a week for a return to a normal power supply from the station prompted the government to open a "fact-finding mission."
– 100,000 travelers a day –
Friday's incident disorganized the circulation of trains in the middle of summer crossings in the second station of France for the TGV traffic, where a breakdown had already sown the mess that same weekend a year ago.
As the day before, some 100,000 travelers had to take a train this Sunday. The trains maintained were divided between Montparnbade and the Austerlitz station.
For those who can, the SNCF advises to postpone their trip. Tickets will be fully refunded more than three hours late.
If the departure of TGV to Brittany and Pays de la Loire remains in Montparnbade, those from or to the Southwest are redirected to the station from Paris-Austerlitz
TGVs to Tours and Poitiers are abolished, pbadengers are invited to use Intercités trains from Austerlitz
SNCF has announced its intention to seek compensation from the electricity manager.
"We will turn to our provider RTE to ask us to compensate us," said Saturday the CEO of the public company Guillaume Pepy, saying that these disruptions should cost "a few million euros". RTE acknowledged its responsibility.
The provisional solution, "but durable in the time", affirmed Sunday Mr. Brottes, to replenish the station, consists in creating a circumvention of the station of Issy-les-Moulineaux and the damaged part of the cables of the post.
Nicolas Hulot, Minister of the Ecological Transition, and Elisabeth Borne, Minister of Transport, announced Saturday to launch a "mission of investigation" of the services of the State on this fire which put forward "a manifest fragility in the substitute diet of the station Montparnbade".
It will "shed light on these feeding conditions and identify the alternatives to implement at the future to prevent this type of situation from recurring. "
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