TGV traffic on the South-East high-speed line was disrupted on the night of Tuesday 24 to Wednesday 25 December, due to a “personal accident”causing delays of up to five hours on New Year's Eve. Around ten TGVs are affected, but all will go to their destination, an SNCF spokesperson announced to Agence France-Presse in the evening. On its website Wednesday at 1:40 a.m., the company announced a “gradual resumption of traffic”.
During the night, on its website, the SNCF announced delays of up to an hour and a half but the indicative times noted by Agence France-Presse around midnight for three trains suggested up to five hours of delay.
These are the TGV Inoui Brussels-Lyon n° 9844 which should be three hours late, the Ouigo Paris-Lyon Perrache n° 7805, whose arrival delay is estimated at four hours and forty hours, and the TGV Inoui Montpellier -Paris n° 6206 which could be five hours late.
Blocked trains
“The trains take another route in both directions, which results in longer travel times of around an hour to an hour and a half” for the TGV Inoui and Ouigo traveling in the sector, warned the SNCF. “Some trains are blocked and will have to wait for traffic to resume on the high-speed line”she said, in a message published shortly after midnight.
The SNCF spokesperson did not give details on the“personal accident” at the origin of the disturbances. According to a message sent to travelers in the evening, “Firefighters are on scene”.
No details have been provided on the number of passengers affected by these delays in the middle of Christmas Eve.
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