Paris-Lille, “estimated delay of 2h20”. This is the message that we can read at the Massy-Palaiseau station, affected by a “power supply fault that occurred near Massy-Palaiseau”, explains the SNCF. But it is especially at Montparnasse station that the chaos gets worse, traffic having completely stopped, and trains to or from the South-West finding themselves completely blocked. “The technical teams are on site and are examining the possibility of resuming traffic on one lane,” specifies the message sent to customers at the very beginning of the afternoon, hoping for a resumption by 2:45 p.m. More than an hour after this delay, traffic remains very disrupted.
“Train circulation was able to resume on the Atlantic high-speed line, on one track,” notes the SNCF. Several trains, bound for Brittany in particular, have been “diverted by the classic line”, which will also extend their journey time. Thus, a Ouigo train which was to leave at 12:47 p.m. for Quimper was more than 3 hours late, and will take an hour longer to make the journey, indicates The Parisian.
It is especially in the arrivals section that you will have to be patient. A Ouigo train, which left Bordeaux at 11:30 a.m., has already been six hours late, and other trains on the Atlantic coast are 5 hours 10 minutes late, according to the sign at Montparnasse station. Furthermore, an operation was launched to evacuate passengers from a train stopped in the middle of a track. “Given their number”, the end of the evacuation “is estimated around 5 p.m.”, indicates the company, which hopes to gradually make up for the delays from 5:30 p.m.