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Up to five hours late: Christmas Eve turns into a nightmare for passengers on around ten TGV trains

La SNCF ne précise pas combien de passagers sont affectés par ces retards en plein réveillon de Noël. Midi Libre – JEAN-MICHEL MART – Illustration

A “personal accident” caused major disruptions during the night of Tuesday 24 to Wednesday 25 December. The Inoui Montpellier-Paris TGV no. 6206 was expected to be up to 5 hours late.

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TGV traffic on the South-East high-speed line was disrupted during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday due to a “personal accident”, causing delays for around ten trains on New Year's Eve, we learned from the SNCF. “Train traffic on the South-East high-speed line is disrupted this evening due to a personal accident in the south of Seine-et-Marne”, a spokesperson told AFP.

Around ten TGV trains are affected with a delay of around an hour, but all will reach their destination, he added. On its website, the SNCF indicates 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 suggest delays of up to three to five hours.

A Montpellier-Paris particularly impacted

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 4 hours 40 minutes and the TGV Inoui Montpellier-Paris n°6206 which could be 5 hours late. delay.

“Trains are taking a different route in both directions, which results in longer journey times of around 1 to 1.5 hours” for the TGV Inoui and Ouigo trains running in the area, SNCF said. “Some trains are blocked and will have to wait for traffic to resume on the High Speed ​​Line”, it said, adding that traffic was expected to resume late in the evening, in a message published shortly after midnight.

SNCF did not specify how many passengers are affected by these delays in the middle of Christmas Eve. She indicates in a message to travelers that “the firefighters are on the scene” of the accident.

Teilor Stone

By Teilor Stone

Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116