2023-11-02 12:38:27
By AR
Published 6 hours ago, Updated 3 hours ago
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TER circulation is completely interrupted in Brittany, Normandy, Hauts-de-France, Pays de la Loire and Center Val de Loire, until Friday morning. TGV and Ouigo trains to the west of France will also be affected.
«Don’t take risks […] Stay home», Urged the head of state on Wednesday evening, as storm Ciaran prepared to hit a large part of France. Three departments have been placed on red alert for violent winds – Finistère, Manche and Côtes-d’Armor – until Thursday morning, 10 a.m. Thirty departments are also on orange alert, due to possible winds, floods, storms, rain-flooding and waves-submersion. Unsurprisingly, public transport traffic is severely disrupted in the areas concerned.
Lreduced TGV offer this Thursday
The trains “broad outlines» departing from Paris and heading to the west of France will be severely disrupted by the weather conditions linked to the storm. The TGV INOUI and OUIGO will run normally between Paris and Rennes and Paris and Lille, but the trains will not serve intermediate stations located outside the high-speed lines.
Travel to Nantes and La Rochelle will not be insured. The line which connects Paris and Le Mans is currently interrupted, but the SNCF assures that a return to normal is envisaged, “from 2 p.m. if nothing prevents it»
However, no restrictions are planned on the journeys which connect Paris to Tours, Poitiers, Angoulême, Bordeaux and South Aquitaine.
The SNCF informs travelers that they will be systematically notified by email or SMS if their train with reservation “is deleted or modified“. The railway company nevertheless invites travelers to check the circulation of their train on the site and, ideally, to anticipate or postpone travel.
No TER in Brittany, Normandy, Hauts-de-France, Pays de la Loire and Center Val de Loire
Even more disrupted will be the circulation of regional express trains. TER circulation in Brittany, Normandy, Hauts-de-France, Pays de la Loire and Center Val de Loire, interrupted since Wednesday evening at 10:30 p.m., will not resume until Friday morning at 5 a.m. No TER will therefore run this Thursday, November 2 in these regions.
«Some traffic disruptions could remain during the day of Friday November 3, 2023», warns the TER Normandie website.
“Preventive stops” planned in Ile-de-France
In Île-de-France too, transport will be affected by storm Ciaran. The SNCF announced that it was planning Thursday morning “preventive stops of rail traffic» on part of the RER A (SNCF Poissy – Cergy branch), several Transilien lines (L, J, U and N, on the Dreux and Mantes-la-Jolie branch) and the T13 tram.
The SNCF announced that it was planning Thursday morning “preventive stops of rail traffic» on part of the RER A, several Transilien lines (L, J, U and partially N) and the T13 tram.
Delays expected in Paris airports
Less disrupted than rail or road traffic, air traffic will nevertheless be affected by storm Ciaran.
In Paris, ADP warns that due to “weather conditions, and to guarantee flight safety, departure and arrival delays are expected on Thursday, November 2 at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly“. Real-time information will be given to passengers present in the terminals.
In Brittany, Brest airport, like Quimper airport, will be closed until 9:30 a.m. this Thursday.
Reduced metropolitan transport in Brittany
HAS Rennesseveral lines of the metropolitan transport network will be disrupted this Thursday:
Line C2 to Haut Sancé: The Forge and Haut Trait stops are not served. Line C3 to Henri Fréville: Sweden stop not served. Line 34: Landes and Breillou stops not served Line 50: Placis Vert stop not served. Line 77: terminus at Teillais. The Baiersdorf, Beausoleil, Champalune, Ouessant and Pâtis Roussel stops are not served. Line 70: does not run. Line 82: does not run.
HAS Brestthe urban transport service will gradually resume from this Thursday from 1:00 p.m.
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