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The new breakdown occurred Friday Montparnbade station after a fire in a transformer, should cost "a few million euros" to the railway company. RTE plans a return to normal Thursday August 2.
No question this time to pay the bill. After the fire of a power transformer on Friday that sows the Montparnbade station chaos in Paris, the CEO of SNCF, Guillaume Pepy asks RTE, the manager of the electricity network, also subsidiary of EDF, compensation. In the midst of a summer holiday, SNCF has promised to fully refund users who have been delayed for more than 3 hours or have had their train canceled. Some 100,000 pbadengers were impacted Friday, according to the leaders of the railway company and as many could be Saturday. The railway group had to put in place an alternative transport plan. On Saturday, the SNCF provided about "two thirds of the trains on the Atlantic", on arrival or departure from Montparnbade or Austerlitz, station where were diverted some trains. Sunday the situation is deteriorating: almost one train out of two will circulate in Montparnbade. These disruptions should cost the company "several million euros". "We will seek compensation from RTE," Guillaume Pepy told Figaro.
The manager of the electricity network announced that the full power supply of the Paris station's tracks will not be effective until August 2nd. But for the SNCF, it can not wait for Thursday. She asks RTE "to act urgently to find a quick solution for our customers to travel," said Rachel Picard, CEO of Voyages SNCF.
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"Frustrated" by this situation, the boss of the railway group, insisted on Saturday at the microphone of BFMTV: "We are victims of a situation on which we have no responsibility and no possible lever". It must be said that the incident, which is still not repaired, falls to the worst. In the middle of a holiday week-end, while the trains are full all weekend and at the beginning of the week, the SNCF put a lot on this period after having suffered 37 days of strike which cost him 790 million d euros. The railway company also hoped to improve its image after the serial breakdowns last year, including a gigantic one year ago, at the same time, also Montparnbade station, disrupting traffic for three days. This time, the boss of the SNCF hammered: his company is a victim of a failure "outside the SNCF". The manager of the electricity network RTE has also acknowledged his responsibility.
An administrative investigation
It is an electrical transformer that caught fire late Friday morning in Issy-les-Moulineaux, cutting power electrical stations of the SNCF, including relief, in Montparnbade station. "The equipment is no longer functional, namely the 30-wire 63kV station and the substation itself," said Xavier Piechaczyk, a leader of RTE, at a press briefing late Saturday morning.
The manager of the electricity network indicated that "the causes of the disaster are still unknown." But "there is no indication that a voluntary act was at the origin of the incident," added the head of RTE. "Investigations are underway as to the reasons for this fire, but its consequences reveal a manifest fragility in the replacement diet of the station Montparnbade by RTE," according to a joint statement by Ministers Nicolas Hulot (Ecological Transition) and Elisabeth Borne ( Transport) who decided to launch an administrative inquiry into the "supply conditions" of the Montparnbade station.
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