The eastern corridor is functioning normally from early in the morning. The same is not happening with the countries in the Atlantic and the North, which are running with fewer trains and delays. The railway company estimates that 250,000 people were affected yesterday.
High-speed train (TGV) traffic in France, which was disrupted by a series of coordinated sabotages in the early hours of Friday, has been remarkably restored next Saturday, but a return to full normality is not planned until Monday.
This is the message from the National Railway Society (SNCF), which stressed in a statement that it will guarantee transport for all teams participating in the Olympic Games in Paris, as well as for accredited personnel.
The eastern corridor, which covers the lines from Paris to Luxembourg and Strasbourg, is normally active from 6:30 am.
The same does not happen with the other two, those in the Atlantic and the North, which were also hit by the attacks, which consisted of setting fire to signalling equipment on the TGV lines at three strategic points.
In the north, which is the one that runs from Paris to Lille, London, Brussels, the Netherlands and northern Germany, 70% of the usual trains are running, but with delays of one to two hours, as they have to deviate along the conventional line.
This Saturday, only a third of the normally planned meetings circulated there.
Similarly, 70% of TGVs operate on the Atlantic lines, which run from Paris to Brittany and other destinations in south-west France, such as Bordeaux, Toulouse or the Spanish border of the Basque Country.
That axis was hit hardest on Friday, as it could only be put into use in the afternoon, and only very partially.
The company had estimated that they had already seen it yesterday 250,000 people affected.
Source: EITB
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