Be careful, disruptions ahead. The Paris-Lyon TGV line will be stopped for four days to allow signaling work to be carried out. SNCF Réseau must carry out work on the High Speed Line (LGV), an operation which will require a complete closure of the LGV Sud-Est, from this Friday from 11 p.m., until Wednesday November 13 at 4 a.m. , i.e. a cut lasting 101 hours.
Les travaux visent à équiper la ligne avec un nouveau système de signalisation, qui doit permettre d’améliorer la régularité et la fiabilité des trains, mais aussi augmenter la capacité de la ligne de 25 % d’ici 2030 en permettant le passage de 16 trains per hour and per direction instead of 13 currently.
4h30 instead of two hours to complete a Lyon-Paris flight
Deprived of the LGV, the TGVs will have to take the classic line, which will strongly disturb the circulation for four days. Only 30% of TGVs will run compared to a normal weekend along the entire south-east axis.
It will therefore be necessary to plan for “a significant increase in travel time” which will be multiplied by two, warns the SNCF. Rallier Lyon from Paris will take 4:30 am instead of two hours, Paris-Marseille will last 7:30 instead of three hours, and Paris-Grenoble 6 hours instead of 3 hours.
“World premiere”
Some serves will not be ensured such as “the connection between the South East and the Pays-de-la-Loire, Brittany, Normandy, Center-Val-de-Loire and Hauts-de-France”, indicates SNCF Travelers. No Nantes-Lyon, Lyon-Rennes, Le Havre-Marseille or even Lille-Marseille will run from Saturday 9 to Tuesday 12 November inclusive.
Trains from Paris to the southeast will stop at Marseille and Toulon and will not serve Nice. In Occitania, the TGVs will not go further than Montpellier Saint-Roch. There will therefore be no possible journey to Perpignan for example.
The interruption of such a large speed line (it is the busiest in Europe) for four full days is a world first, according to SNCF travelers.
Source: www.20minutes.fr
