Europe 1 with AFP 21:31 p.m., March 28, 2023

4 out of 5 TGVs will run normally this Wednesday on the 23rd day of the renewable strike against the pension reform and the circulation of the RER and Transilien should improve significantly. Traffic will be normal on the RATP network, with the exception of the RER A where some slight disruptions are to be expected.

The SNCF plans Wednesday an improvement on the main lines, the TER and the Paris suburbs, including 4 TGV out of 5 in circulation, on the 23rd day of a renewable strike against the pension reform. SNCF Voyageurs plans to maintain Wednesday 80% of its TGV Inoui and Ouigo, two-thirds of its Intercités and three-quarters of its TER, said Tuesday a spokesman to AFP. Night trains will timidly start running again and traffic will be "almost normal" on Eurostar and Thalys.

Slight disturbances on RER A

On the Ile-de-France rail network, train traffic will improve significantly, with lines C, D, L and R remaining the most disrupted with 2 out of 3 trains. At the same time, the management plans to run 3 out of 4 trains on average on its part of the RER A - as well as the RATP on its part - and on line N. It provides 4 out of 5 trains on line H. The service will be normal, or almost, on RER B and E, as well as on lines J, K, U, T4, T11 and T13, line P having a service more or less disrupted depending on the branch. Still in Ile-de-France, traffic should be normal on the RATP network, except the RER A.

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The railway unions have called for a strike that can be renewed since March 7, until the government withdraws its pension reform. The movement is more or less followed, with greater disruptions on days of interprofessional mobilization, such as Tuesday.