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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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
TGV accidents are events involving TGV trains which have harmful consequences, such as injury to people or damage to trains, or derailments. High-speed rail is one of the safest modes of transportation; since service started in 1964, there have only been fatalities in high-speed operation in a 2015 derailment.
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.
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 ...
It is still France's deadliest rail accident to date. [6] Versailles rail accident: 8 May 1842 Meudon: 52–200 Hundreds A train returning to Paris derailed at Meudon after the leading locomotive broke an axle, and the carriages behind piled into it and caught fire. It was the first French railway accident and the deadliest in the world at the ...