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PARIS — Hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on Friday, part of France’s high-speed rail network was paralyzed by a “massive attack” that disrupted service for hundreds ...
On 26 July 2024, the day of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, a series of arson attacks damaged the LGV Atlantique, Nord, and Est lines of the French high-speed railway system. [3] International and domestic rail services were widely disrupted, [4] with around 800,000 passengers affected. [5]
Damaged cables lie near Courtalain, France, near the site where vandals targeted France's high-speed train network, on July 26. - Mayor of Vald’Yerre/Franck Marchand/Facebook/Reuters
Arsonists attacked France's high-speed rail network early Friday, setting fires that paralyzed train travel to Paris for some 800,000 people across Europe, including athletes heading to the ...
The train reached a maximum speed of 352 km/h (219 mph) on sections where the speed limit was 320 km/h (200 mph). As the train approached the flying junction in the commune of Vendenheim, it should have slowed from 352 to 176 km/h (219 to 109 mph) before reaching Kilometer Point (KP) 403.809, where the speed limit was 160 km/h (99 mph).
With the introduction of the Paris–Milan Frecciarossa, Trenitalia became the first company to enter France's railway market after SNCF. [7] [10] The full service between Milan and Paris was suspended on 27 August 2023 following a landslide near Modane, and is scheduled to restart in 2025. [11] The service between Paris and Lyon remains ...
The 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games are set to be the biggest event ever organised in France, with 10,500 athletes competing and millions of spectators attending – as many as 15.3 million ...
The engineer detected an anomalous vibration and reduced speed to 200 km/h (120 mph), before resuming full speed a short time afterwards. At 1754 local time as the trainset passed 290 km/h (180 mph) near the village of Croisilles, 14 km (8.7 mi) south of Arras , at the level of the track switch for the branch line to Arras, a transmission ...