The railway traffic returned to normal by late morning Saturday between Marseille and Nice after tearing a new catenary, which is probably linked to the weather in the region, which followed a series of failures since mid-August SNCF on such equipment.
"The traffic is back to normal. Traffic on two tracks was restored to 10h30" after tearing a wire several hundred meters in the Var, between Puget-Ville and Carnoules, told the AFP a spokeswoman for SNCF.
About 700 passengers, 325 in a high-speed train and 380 in a TER had been blocked for more than four hours Friday evening after this incident that would be due, according to SNCF, the strong winds that have blown through the Var between Friday and Saturday.
Meteo France had placed the department in orange vigilance because of high winds and several thousand homes suffered power outages overnight.
Twenty trains, mainly on the Nice-Marseille, suffered delays due to pull out of the catenary, according to SNCF. Passengers will be reimbursed, "according to the usual procedures of the SNCF for delays," said a spokeswoman for the regional branch Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur.
This new incident follows a series of failures since the summer.
On 17 August, during a major incident, about 3,000 travelers were stranded up to 10 hours in the stations in South-East because of a wrenched catenary near Aubagne (Bouches-du-Rhone).
The railway unions had then sounded the alarm about the lack of preventive maintenance at the station.
During the month of September, the same type of incident including 20,000 passengers blocked in Montparnasse station (September 5), interrupted for several hours traffic from the RER line B (September 10) and delayed three TGV in Saone-et -Loire (Sept. 14). On November 1, breach of catenary probably due to firing a gun, had paralyzed some fifty TGV Atlantique.
After the blackouts this summer, the SNCF had to begin an inspection of lines, electric cables feeding the trains.
According to a report delivered in early October, the renovation would require 400 million euros over four years. An audit had already put forward in 2005 the fragility of the rail infrastructure, linked to 30 years of underinvestment.
"The traffic is back to normal. Traffic on two tracks was restored to 10h30" after tearing a wire several hundred meters in the Var, between Puget-Ville and Carnoules, told the AFP a spokeswoman for SNCF.
About 700 passengers, 325 in a high-speed train and 380 in a TER had been blocked for more than four hours Friday evening after this incident that would be due, according to SNCF, the strong winds that have blown through the Var between Friday and Saturday.
Meteo France had placed the department in orange vigilance because of high winds and several thousand homes suffered power outages overnight.
Twenty trains, mainly on the Nice-Marseille, suffered delays due to pull out of the catenary, according to SNCF. Passengers will be reimbursed, "according to the usual procedures of the SNCF for delays," said a spokeswoman for the regional branch Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur.
This new incident follows a series of failures since the summer.
On 17 August, during a major incident, about 3,000 travelers were stranded up to 10 hours in the stations in South-East because of a wrenched catenary near Aubagne (Bouches-du-Rhone).
The railway unions had then sounded the alarm about the lack of preventive maintenance at the station.
During the month of September, the same type of incident including 20,000 passengers blocked in Montparnasse station (September 5), interrupted for several hours traffic from the RER line B (September 10) and delayed three TGV in Saone-et -Loire (Sept. 14). On November 1, breach of catenary probably due to firing a gun, had paralyzed some fifty TGV Atlantique.
After the blackouts this summer, the SNCF had to begin an inspection of lines, electric cables feeding the trains.
According to a report delivered in early October, the renovation would require 400 million euros over four years. An audit had already put forward in 2005 the fragility of the rail infrastructure, linked to 30 years of underinvestment.
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