SNCF Voyageurs will offer three daily round trips. Its competitor, Trenitalia, has announced the return of trains between Paris and Italy for April 1st.
SNCF Voyageurs announced on Tuesday the reopening of its connection between Paris, Milan and Turin on March 31, 19 months after its interruption due to a landslide in the Maurienne valley which damaged a railway tunnel. “We are going to reopen our connections between Paris and Italy!”rejoiced in a publication on X the director of TGV-Intercités, Alain Krakovitch.
The Italian company Trenitalia, which also operates a connection on this route, has announced the return of trains between Paris and Italy for April 1. She plans two round trips per day. SNCF Voyageurs will offer three daily round trips.
On August 27, 2023, part of a cliff collapsed in the Maurienne valley after heavy rains which followed a drought. Thousands of tonnes of rock had buried a railway tunnel approximately 300 meters long and seriously damaged the infrastructure. It was necessary to purge the mountain of 5,000 cubic meters of unstable rock, using water drops by helicopter or even dynamiting, before securing the cliff and then rehabilitating the network.
-The French company set up a replacement service between Paris and Milan last January in order to maintain one round trip per day. Travelers take a bus between Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (Savoie) and Oulx (Piedmont) and travel the rest by TGV for a journey lasting seven and a half to nine hours – compared to between six and seven hours before the accident. . Normally, the railway line linking France and Italy welcomes around thirty international freight trains every day as well as 5 to 6 round trips of high-speed trains and local TER service to the Maurienne valley.
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