In Lille, the circulation of TGVs “strongly” disturbed after the flight of 600 meters of cable

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The circulation of TGVs in Lille is “strongly” disturbed this Wednesday. Moreover, June 25 in the morning, due to “an important act of malicious” on the tracks.

France – The circulation of TGVs at the start. For example, arrival of Lille stations was “Strongly” disrupted this Wednesday, June 25 in the morning, due to“A malicious act”the flight or the cut of cables, the SNCF announced.

At the Lille Europe station. In addition, a rail node between Paris, London and Brussels, the screens of departures and arrivals were empty this Wednesday in the lille, circulation tgvs “strongly” disturbed morning, with an information message rotating in a loop, informing a recovery of the normal traffic estimated for 4:00 p.m., AFP found on site. Moreover, “All Eurostar services between London, Brussels and Paris are disrupted”confirmed a spokesperson for Eurostar to AFP.

TGVs “Are diverted to the maximum on a classic line but the capacity of the line is limited” et “Repairs should take part of the day”explains SNCF Réseau. Therefore, who says that “The impacts are mainly on high -speed trains traffic”.

The few SNCF agents present in Lille Europe were assaulted by requests from worried travelers but still calm. However, “We had to take the TGV at 07:20. and then we were told that there was a lot of delay, and after two hours we were told that there was no TGV”explains to AFP Marie-Line Ponville, a 51-year-old Belgian who was to leave for Marseille lille, circulation tgvs “strongly” disturbed with her daughter for a week of cruise in the Mediterranean. “We can’t even stay here since we had taken our suitcases for the sun. so we’re going to cancel all that and go home”she adds, disappointed.

“Do not add stress” – Lille, circulation tgvs "strongly" disturbed

Sophie Nunez. an executive in the 60 -year -old pharmaceutical industry, arrived in Lille in Strasbourg TGV with an hour late, damaging her correspondence for Dunkirk. “It is one of my colleagues who will come. get me here so that I can continue on Dunkirk”she explains.

“I am not one of the people who groan (…). there are a lot of things that do not depend on the SNCF, the accidents of people or there there the flights of cables, they try to manage, do not add stress to stress”she believes.

At Lille-Flandres station, the situation was less disturbed. Patrick, 60, lille, circulation tgvs “strongly” disturbed was to take a Lille-Paris at 9:12 a.m., whose cancellation he discovered “Arriving at the station”. “There is a lack of information, no communication, no email”regrets this employee in the insurance sector. “I am surprised that there is no more surveillance”he adds. while several cable flights have already occurred in recent months in the vicinity of Lille.

Repeated flights

“SNCF Réseau was the victim of an important malicious act in Lille: more than 600 meters of cable have been stolen. cut south of the Lille Europe station”had announced earlier the manager of railway infrastructure in the morning.

A SNCF Network on -site communication manager then told AFP that it was a cable flight. In Mont-de-Terre. a small station in the Lille district of Fives, several teams of orange safety vests were working to reconnect the cables along the railroad, AFP found on site. In lille, circulation tgvs “strongly” disturbed each pipe, dozens of cables of different colors must be connected one by one, a tedious task.

Solicited by AFP. the police were not yet able to give more details in the immediate future on the circumstances of this new magnitude flight in Lille.

In February. 13 cables representing a cumulative length of several hundred meters had been stolen on SNCF land in Lille, which had led to major disruptions on the network for a whole day. A previous theft of cables had also strongly disrupted rail traffic in Hauts-de-France last October.