A train driver reportedly jumped from his cabin on Tuesday evening, causing delays on New Year's Eve on the Lyon-Paris line.
TGV traffic on the South-East high-speed line, very disrupted late Tuesday evening due to a “personal accident“, gradually resumed on Wednesday morning, we learned from the SNCF. According to a source close to the investigation on Wednesday morning, the driver of a train jumped off in the early evening, causing delays for around ten trains on New Year's Eve. His lifeless body was discovered a little later.
SNCF does not confirm the information
The SNCF for its part “did not (confirm)“this information Wednesday morning, specifying that”the SNCF investigation is (was) not finished“. According to BFM, the hypothesis of a suicide by the driver of a TGV which transported 400 people which stopped in the middle of the track near Moisenay in Seine-et-Marne is being studied by the gendarmerie.
The SNCF announced on Wednesday on its website the “gradual resumption of traffic following a personal accident south of Paris“. “Some delays are still expected“, she warned, however.
“Train traffic on the South-East high-speed line is disrupted this evening (Tuesday) due to a personal accident in the south of Seine-et-Marne“, a spokesperson told AFP on Tuesday evening. Around ten TGVs were affected approximately an hour late, the SNCF said on Tuesday evening, according to which the incident ended around 1:00 a.m. According to the source close to the investigation, around 3:00 a.m., all the travelers had returned to their destination.
According to SNCF on Wednesday morning, some trains were up to 5 hours late, but no trains were canceled. On its website, the SNCF announced Tuesday evening that due to this incident, delays could be up to 1 hour 30 minutes but the indicative timetables noted by AFP around midnight for three trains suggested a delay of three to five hours: the TGV Inoui Brussels-Lyon n°9844, the Ouigo Paris-Lyon n°7805 and the TGV Inoui Montpellier-Paris n°6206.
“The trains take another route in both directions, which results in longer travel times of around 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes.” for the TGV Inoui and Ouigo traveling in the sector, SNCF then assured. “Certain trains are blocked and will have to wait for traffic to resume on the High Speed Line”, she also specified. A little more than 3,000 people were affected by these delays in the middle of Christmas Eve.
