The traffic of trains TER and TGV was "strongly" disturbed Monday in the south of New Aquitaine after a fire that damaged infrastructures near Bordeaux, said the SNCF, which evokes "malicious acts".
A fire occurred around 5 am in the town of Pessac, near Bordeaux, on signal cabinets, near the tracks, explained a spokesman for the SNCF to AFP. The fire was quickly controlled but "it damaged infrastructure, including signaling". "This is acts of malicious intent," she said, indicating that the SNCF was going to complain.
TERs deleted or replaced by buses
The disturbances, which should persist for a good part of the day, concern the Bordeaux-Hendaye-Tarbes, Bordeaux-Arcachon and Bordeaux-Mont-de-Marsan lines, according to the SNCF. Traffic on these lines remained "highly disturbed" in the middle of the day, according to TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
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"TERs were removed or substituted by buses and TGVs going from south to north circulate with an average of an hour late," said the spokesman of the SNCF, but can not specify the number of trains and affected travelers. Concerning TGVs, these are trains "from Hendaye, Toulouse and Tarbes and passing through Bordeaux," she added.
Water supplies were organized in some TGVs affected by these delays.