This Thursday at the end of the day, the 480 passengers of the Intercités Bordeaux-Montpellier saw their train immobilized a handful of kilometers from their destination in the Montpellier district of Garosud around 7 p.m. For two hours, they were stuck in their cars, without air conditioning as there was talk of a power failure. The Red Cross did what was necessary to assist the passengers and distribute water to them in the blistering heat. From 9:30 p.m., the victims could be taken by shuttle bus to the Saint-Roch station, indicates the regional daily on Free lunch.
This Friday, SNCF teams on site diagnosed the problem and concluded that it was “an electrical fault. The train lost power and stopped. Either it is the power supply or the locomotive. »
All the other trains were able to run on the only remaining track, causing other disruptions. By Friday morning, traffic was back to normal.