Traffic will resume but “will be greatly disturbed” Wednesday departing from and arriving at the Gare de l’Est in Paris, with one in three TGVs at peak times and one in two during the day, the SNCF announced on Tuesday, January 24.
Traffic interrupted all day at Gare de l’Est: what we know
Traffic has been almost paralyzed since Tuesday morning in this large Parisian station, following a “arson on electric cables” of a signal box in Seine-et-Marne.
“Adapted” service for TER
One Transilien out of 2 is scheduled for Wednesday on line P (Meaux and Château-Thierry axes) and the service “will be adapted for TER Grand Est with services to Ile-de-France stations”. “We are already inviting travelers who can, to postpone their planned trips tomorrow”advises the site.
Tuesday, the TGV and TER were completely interrupted, an extremely rare event. A few TGVs have been diverted to the Gare du Nord, very close to the Gare de l’Est, where some 41 million travelers pass each year according to figures dating from 2019.
At the end of the afternoon, the station was almost deserted. A single train was displayed for Coulommiers, track 14, while the TGVs for Fribourg, Metz and Stuttgart and Luxembourg were announced from the Gare du Nord, and the TGV for Reims from the Gare de Lyon, in the center of the capital. .
