An electrical breakdown is responsible for many blockages in the Parisian station. Traffic must gradually resume in the afternoon.
Le Monde with AFP
Traffic is very disrupted, Sunday, June 5, on the Ferré network at the start and arrival of the Gare du Nord in Paris. Traffic is blocked on the main lines until the middle of the afternoon, said SNCF on Sunday.
A “defect of power supply to Saint-Denis” is at the origin of chaos, without the SNCF being able to say immediately if this electrical failure is linked to the strong thunderstorms which crossed France on Saturday. “It’s too early to say,” said a spokesperson for the group.
“Train traffic is completely interrupted at the start and arrival of the Gare du Nord following a lack of power supply,” warned the SNCF on its site in the middle of the morning. “Some TGVs take another route with, for departure station or arrival station, Paris Gare de Lyon”, is it specified.
Traffic “will be blocked on the main lines until the middle of the afternoon,” a spokesperson for the railway company told Agence France-Presse. traffic was restored in the middle of the day on the RER B and had to restart around 1 p.m. A>, said the same source.
The Minister of Ecological Transition, Amélie de Montchalin, recognized, on Sunday, “very strong disturbances in the north of Paris”. “Normally, at 1 pm, traffic at Gare du Nord should be able to resume gradually,” she added, on RTL and LCI.