It took more than three hours to evacuate a thousand passengers from a train blocked at the Hulpe after a person from person: “It was hypercompleted”

Stir sky. Moreover, earth to find drivers

But that does not explain the very long delay that was necessary to evacuate travelers from the immobilized train. However, He was first envisaged to tranship them to another train, which would have been brought on a parallel path. Nevertheless, “”The train was crowded. However, It was hypercomplely to realize, for security issues “indicates Tom Guillaume, spokesperson the SNCB. In addition, The railway company then opted for the implementation of an alternative bus service, addressing private companies. Consequently, “There too, it was very difficult. Private operators had to stir heaven and earth to find drivers.” One of them had to come from Libramont …

The shortage of drivers in private bus companies is not absorbed

At the end of July. the Belgian bus and coach federation indicated that Belgian it took more than three private bus companies sought 530 drivers and that 60 % of them had to find arms to take the wheel. During holidays, drivers are rare pearls …

Result: Wednesday evening, it took a long time to bring back the thousand travelers from the Hulpe to Ottignies. “It was very slow and very long”reports a commander on Facebook. “”If all the public services involved (trains, bus, justice, local police, firefighters, health, etc.) had means, everything would have gone faster. Additionally, “

For the rest, she adds, “Everything went well and a great thank you to all the teams on site. “ On this point, testimonies converge. Furthermore, “I was on the train. Information every 5 to 10 minutes from the chief board. He and his team were very professional, available, proactive and impeccably managed the human too”adds another traveler. A doctor and a nurse went into compartments it took more than three to ensure that all users were going well.

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Tom Guillaume confirms: “The communication worked well. The guide gave information every quarter of an hour.”

Conversely. for the thousands of travelers whose train was deleted Wednesday evening due to the interruption of rail traffic, information in the station was either nonexistent or completely messy. They were sent from Schuman to Brussels-Luxembourg (or in the other direction) in order to take a bus (completely hypothetical) to Ottignies. before learning that the trains had been diverted via Louvain.