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Another complicated day Sunday for travelers to leave or to arrive at Montparnbade : the SNCF will ensure one train out of two and the situation risks deteriorating again from here the complete restoration of the electricity of the station scheduled for Thursday.
The SNCF has put in residence RTE to find a solution as soon as possible to allow a normal operation of the Parisian station, and in any case before the date of thursday 2 August announced by the manager of the high voltage network.
The electrical station of Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine) which feeds Montparnbade was severely damaged Friday by a fire unexplained, RTE excluding a priori a voluntary act.
"The duration of the incident is critical"
The delay of almost a week for a return to a normal power supply from the station prompted the government to open a "fact-finding mission". Meanwhile, traffic forecasts for Sunday are deteriorating compared to Saturday, where two thirds of the trains have circulated.
The maintenance workshop TGV trains near Montparnbade is, in fact, no longer supplied with electricity.
"There are oars that we can not go out because they are not safe for our travelers. That's why the duration the incident is critical, "she said.
100,000 pbadengers a day
Friday's incident disrupted the movement of trains in the middle of the summer crosswalk in France's second largest train station. TGV traffic, where a breakdown had already wreaked havoc on the same weekend a year ago.
Some 100,000 travelers had to take a train there this Saturday. The maintained trains are now 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 the TGV to Brittany and Pays de la Loire remains Montparnbade those from or to the South-West are redirected to the station of Paris-Austerlitz. TGVs bound for Tours and Poitiers are abolished, travelers are invited to use the Intercités trains from Austerlitz
SNCF asks to be compensated
RTE has highlighted the extent of the damage on his substation to justify the time to restart. For its part, the SNCF will seek compensation from the electricity manager.
"We will turn to our supplier RTE to ask him to compensate us," said Saturday the CEO of the public company Guillaume Pepy, stating that these disturbances should cost "a few million euros". RTE acknowledged its responsibility.
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 in before "manifest fragility in the surrogate feeding of the station Montparnbade ".
This survey aims "to shed light on these feeding conditions and to identify solutions alternative to be implemented in the future to prevent this type of situation from recurring ", according to their joint communique.
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