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The SNCF agrees to circulate "at least" 70% of the 180 TGV planned Saturday from Montparnbade, but it advises to postpone travel.
After a Friday, July 27, the most difficult for travelers of pbading through Montparnbade station in Paris, it will still be necessary to be patient on Saturday. Very disturbed Friday, following a fire on a substation RTE, traffic should continue to be Saturday, suggesting a difficult weekend for travelers, in the middle of a summer crossover.
the day of Saturday, the SNCF undertakes to circulate "at least" 70% of the 180 TGV planned from Montparnbade, said on BFM-TV the deputy general manager of the SNCF, Mathias Vicherat . The company will reimburse 100% of ticket prices beyond three hours late.
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The SNCF will also seek compensation from the electricity manager RTE, said Saturday his CEO, Guillaume Pepy, on BFM-TV, saying that these disruptions should cost him "a few million euros" .
"Exceptional Action Plan"
After a complete break in the late morning Friday, traffic resumed very early in the afternoon with three trains departing and three trains departing. arrival by hour Montparnbade station, said the CEO of SNCF Réseau, Patrick Jeantet. In the face of strong disturbances, SNCF advises its customers who can postpone their trip.
Friday around 11:30, a RTE electrical transformer in Issy-les-Moulineaux caught fire, cutting power stations SNCF, including relief, explained Jeantet. The power supply "can not be fully restored" Friday, announced RTE at the end of the day.
His teams were still working in the evening at a "exceptional action plan" to set up a temporary technical solution to restore power to the station, and around 10:30 pm, 13,500 homes were still without power, according to RTE.
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"Raging" for those who have only one week of vacation
"It's annoying, it's total vagueness" laments Eva Basin, a 42-year-old Parisian who was due to leave for Quimper. "I'm advised to postpone my ticket, but I only have one week vacation!, " she says. Tomorrow all the trains will be complete. I will try to take a bus.
The SNCF has put in place a plan for the emergency power supply of the station allowing to circulate a part of the trains.
If the departures of TGV to Brittany and the Pays de la Loire are made in Montparnbade, those from or to the South West are redirected to the station of Paris-Austerlitz. TGVs to Tours and Poitiers are abolished, travelers are invited to use the Intercités trains from Austerlitz.
Thunderstorms and more
At the end of the day Friday, thunderstorms caused power supply problems, which disrupted traffic in the stations of East and North in Paris and on several lines of RER and Transilien, According to the SNCF.
Thus, a lightning strike on installations in the Versailles area forced SNCF to interrupt the traffic at the end of the evening on a part of the RER C and the N line of the transilien as well as on the entire U line, according to the SNCF Transilien website. The fire in Issy-les-Moulineaux has been brought under control
In the main alley of the Montparnbade station, pbadengers were queuing in the afternoon in front of trolleys where employees of the SNCF were distributing bottles of water. water in this heat wave
Grouped around an SNCF agent, travelers hope to find answers. "My train is deleted! what do I do ? " exclaims a traveler. The agent confused, replies that "the majority of trains are reported to the Austerlitz station" . "It's not marked for my train" responds the traveler, obviously annoyed.
Last year, already at the station Montparnbade, the traffic had been paralyzed the same weekend hunted -crossed because of a signaling failure. After three days of major disruption and tens of thousands of pbadengers affected, the aging network was singled out.
See also:
SNCF: interrogations after the black series at Montparnbade station
In December 2017, a computer incident on a switch station left thousands of travelers without transportation in Montparnbade. In May 2016, a double breakdown had greatly disrupted the traffic in the same station.
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