A breakdown in the high-voltage electricity network, the cause of which remained to be determined, caused power cuts in 120,000 homes in the Bordeaux metropolitan area on Sunday June 23 and disrupted rail traffic, RTE and SNCF reported. .
Around 8:30 a.m., an incident with as yet unidentified causes occurred, leading the network to shut down. ” safe “explained a spokesperson for RTE, manager of the high and medium voltage electricity network. “It’s like at home: when we see an incident on our network, it will automatically go into security and behind that can cause outages”she said.
RTE reported a gradual recovery of the situation from mid-morning, before the incident ended at 11 a.m.
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Significant train delays
Several districts of Bordeaux and several municipalities in the east of the Bordeaux metropolitan area (Cenon, Bègles, Sainte-Eulalie, Latresne, etc.) were affected by this breakdown, which disrupted the Bordeaux tram network and road signs in particular.
Bordeaux station, located in a district affected by the outage, was also affected, blocking train traffic on several routes arriving and departing from Saint-Jean station, according to SNCF. This caused delays “between 20 minutes and 2:30 a.m.”, according to the company. “The signaling has been interrupted. And we can’t run a train if we don’t have signaling.”explained a spokesperson for the railway company.
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