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.