Current failures paralyze the railway. 17 Eurostar trains were canceled

Due to electricity failure, at least 17 high -speed EUROSTAR trains were canceled on Monday, mainly from Paris to Amsterdam, Brussels and London – the SNCF Reseau French Railways informed. She added that many warehouses had delays of two hours.

“Disturbances on the northern high speed line (LGV) are the result of an electricity failure,” said French Railways, responsible for high -speed connections. Accurately determining the cause of the fault; For now, it is only known that it occurred in the region of Moussy-le-neuf in the department of Seinean and Markna, east of Paris.

Due to the failure, not only 17 warehouses were canceled, but also two trains of the Paris-Brussels and Brussels-Paris relationship, which drove away in the morning. They turned back at the stations from which they set off. For some connections, alternative routes were marked by a conventional line, but until 16 SNCF Reseau was unable to provide the exact number of delayed or canceled warehouses.

At the evening, a partial resumption of high -speed rail traffic was announced, initially one track in both directions. The company also declared that work on restoring full efficiency of the power supply system will be carried out at night so “to resume traffic on both tracks from the first morning trains on Tuesday”. (PAP)

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