Decrease in travelers with the increase in teleworking, contaminated railway workers or arrested contact cases… Like any employer, SNCF is not immune to the 5th wave of Coronavirus which hits France hard. “The evolution of the health situation may lead to local adaptations of some of our transport plans,” said a spokesperson for SNCF Voyageurs on Thursday. By adaptations, understand: cancellation of trains. These relate “only to regional trains”, specified the spokesperson, noting that the phenomenon was for the moment “local and marginal”.
In Occitania in particular, the SNCF canceled all trains until January on the Perpignan-Villefranche (Pyrénées-Orientales), Carcassonne-Quillan (Aude) and Nîmes-Le Grau du Roi (Gard) lines. Trains are canceled on other lines such as between Mende and Marjevols (Lozère), Lyon and Grenoble, Bordeaux and Sarlat (Dordogne), Nancy and Longwy (Meurthe-et-Moselle), Evreux and Mantes (Yvelines) or on internal links to Normandy.
Passengers are invited to check the timetables on the TER website for their region or on the SNCF Assistant application. “For several weeks now, the whole company has been preparing for this new wave and has strengthened its monitoring and adaptation system both in the management of its infrastructure and of the trains”, underlined the spokesperson.