TRAVEL: The SNCF “good plans” operation begins this Friday 7th July 2023 and ends on the 15th July 2023, for trips until the 31st August 2023. Thing promised, thing due. As the summer season continues and many French people are preparing to go on vacation, good news awaits those who have opted for the train. Travelling to […]
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Saturday 27th October, 2018, the 880 passengers of an SNCF Intercités train circulating between Paris and Toulouse were evacuated, in Creuse, following a false alert to the suspicious package. The passengers of the Intercités 3645 train , which ran from Paris Austerlitz to Toulouse Matabiau , will probably remember this journey for a long time … On Saturday 27 October 2018, about three […]
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The SCNF line between Rennes and Retiers (Ille-et-Vilaine) will be renovated. Nothing is yet recorded for the section until Châteaubriant (Loire-Atlantique). The Accret , the Citizen Association Châteaubriant-Rennes by train, received a letter dated October 11, 2018, from Christophe Mirmand, prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine : it was about the future of the train line Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) – Châteaubriant (Loire-Atlantique) . The Accret is mobilized indeed […]
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A freight train and a truck crashed on Monday 9th July in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, on an unprotected crossing. Spectacular accident at Sablé-sur-Sarthe this Monday 9th July, 2018 . Around 11am, a 38-tonne lorry hit a freight train at Les Bosses in Sablé. The crossing, which is between Bouessay and Souvigné-sur-Sarthe , is known to be unprotected. The lorry, who was travelling at low speed, […]
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One person was hit by a train on the railway line between Paris and Brittany, on Friday morning shortly after 7am. The train traffic was disrupted. The TER was interrupted due to the emergency services. The traffic of regional express trains (TER) was interrupted for about three hours, between Laval and Vitre, after a TGV Paris-Montparnasse […]
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As part of its extension, Ouigo provide customers from the 10th December, travel to Paris Montparnasse, the first station from the centre of Paris to Bordeaux, Nantes and Rennes. These winter sales Ouigo, offer low-cost high-speed train, will be open to all travelers from October 3. Tomorrow, it will be possible to book his train tickets […]
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DISTURBANCES: Alongside the demonstration against the orders reforming the labour law set for 2pm, disruptions are expected in transport and canteens in Strasbourg on Tuesday … Throughout France, the call of the CGT, protests are planned against the orders reforming the labour law filed this summer. Meanwhile, the strike will affect a number of public services, such […]
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TRANSPORT: A power problem south of Montparnasse is the cause of delays on the SNCF network this morning … We must be patient on Tuesday morning if one is travelling on a Paris-Bordeaux TGV. The movement of train is indeed interrupted for from 6.30am between the stations of Paris-Montparnasse and Saint-Jean in Bordeaux. Trafic TGV interrompu […]
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Johnny Depp had to change trains in Calais-Fréthun Station on May 8 after a fire alarm … Calais-Fréthun, “Ze place to be” on a Sunday morning. Johnny Depp, in transit between Paris and London, made a forced stop at the Calais-Feéthun station just before crossing the Channel. The American actor, who was to attend the presentation […]
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No more trains through Laval Train Station, a fire shortly before 6pm. The locomotive of a TER caught fire. No injuries were reported. Impressive smoke, acrid smell of burning plastic. This was the scene at the railway station in laval this late Saturday afternoon, when a TER train caught fire. Shortly before 6pm, the engine […]
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