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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 ...
Crowds of passengers waiting for trains delayed by the attacks at Paris Gare du Nord station. Three high-speed lines were impacted: LGV Atlantique: two-thirds of trains were not running. [10] LGV Est Européenne: delays of around one and a half hours were reported, but all trains were running. Normal resumption of traffic was expected by 27 ...
Eurostar, the high-speed train service that connects the United Kingdom with France, is canceling a quarter of its trains this weekend due to the “coordinated acts of malice” on French lines.
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 ...
Réseau ferré de France (French pronunciation: [ʁezo fɛʁe də fʁɑ̃s], lit. ' French Rail Network ', abbr. RFF) was a French company which owned and maintained the French national railway network from 1997 to 2014. The company was formed with the rail assets of SNCF in 1997.
Since then, TERs (regional express trains) have seen traffic rise steeply (50% between 2000 and 2013) as, to a lesser extent, have services in the Ile de France region (25%). Rail freight has been far less successful. The French network carried 55 billion tonne-km in 2001, but this figure scarcely reached 32 billion tonne-km in 2013.
Railway staff and police work to repair one of several sites where vandals targeted France's high-speed train network, in the northern villege of Croisilles, on Friday. - Brian Snyder/Reuters
On 21 August 2015, a man opened fire on a Thalys train on its way from Amsterdam to Paris. [6] [7] [8] Four people were injured, including the assailant. [9] French, American and British passengers confronted the attacker and subdued him. For their heroism, they received France's highest decoration, the Legion of Honour.