TGV, Eurostar… here are the traffic forecasts for this weekend after the sabotage at the SNCF

2024-07-27 22:54:05

Towards a return to normal? After the “big impact” which it suffered on Friday, which significantly hindered train traffic on the TGV network, traffic will improve from Saturday, announces the SNCF. Here is the forecast for this weekend.

For Brittany and South-West, SNCF expects that two of the three trains will operate from Saturday, with delays of 1 to 2 hours. In a bulletin published on Friday afternoon, the company expects a return to normal for monday in this situation. Traffic there is complicated for the time being, with cancellations and delays linked to route changes.

In the north, between Paris and Lille, 80% of trains will operate from Saturday with delays of 1 to 2 hours, announces SNCF. By Friday afternoon, the company expected a normal recovery of traffic from Monday on this line. Good news, however, for users of the high-speed lines in the East: traffic on the lines will start normally from Saturday morning, 6 am, announces SNCF.

There will be “disruption” on Sunday in the North

“At this stage, traffic will be interrupted on Sunday on the Northern route and should improve on the Atlantic position for weekend returns,” the railway company predicted. Customers will be contacted by SMS and e-mail “to confirm the departures of their trains”, added the company, which will also verify on Saturday “every team and transport that is accepted for the Olympic Games ” in Paris.

According to SNCF, this improvement in the situation after a day of chaos for the French railway network is due to the “different mobilization of several thousand railway workers, including more than 100 on repairs”. Note that only the TGV network is affected by these disruptions, the Intercités and TER networks operate normally throughout France and there may be alternatives.

Disruptions on Eurostar

A little earlier, Eurostar, which serves London and Brussels in particular, has indicated that 80% of its trains will operate on Saturday, “at a reduced speed between Paris and Lille”, which will cause about an hour and a half of delays.

In total, “800,000 passengers”, including 250,000 on Friday, should be affected over the weekend by the consequences of this attack, indicated the CEO of SNCF, Jean-Pierre Farandou, during a press conference. SNCF promises that the 90,000 children transported this weekend thanks to the SNCF support program will be given priority to be transported safely.

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The monitoring of the network has also been strengthened “at the ground and air level with human and technical resources”, he added “A thousand maintenance agents are being mobilized to monitor the network as part of their tours” and “forty railroad safety teams. and around fifty drones”, the railway company details.