No trains to Saint-Etienne for the next few days due to heavy rains



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TER traffic will remain completely interrupted for several days between Lyon and Saint-Etienne, the busiest line in France, and will not resume normally for weeks, due to a landslide due to bad weather.

“The damage is significant because a retaining wall of this railway was washed away over 200 meters long,” a representative of the SNCF told AFP on Tuesday. The landslide occurred in Rive-de-Gier (Loire) after heavy rains of the past 24 hours.

Bus service

In the coming days, the service of the Saint-Etienne / Givors (Rhône) section will be 100% provided by coaches, until train traffic can resume on this axis on a single track, at reduced speed. , with a limited number of circulations.

The bedrock of the second track, the closest to the flooded Gier River, was partly nibbled away, causing the fall, Tuesday morning, of a pylon supporting power supply catenaries. Therefore, the return to normal traffic is not expected “for several weeks,” said a spokesperson.

Tuesday morning, in addition to a substitute coach service, taxi shuttles were also set up to deliver passengers from four trains stuck in the middle of the track. The firefighters of the Loire have identified 90 interventions related to flooding during the night from Monday to Tuesday.



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