The suspension of rail traffic in Lille this Wednesday morning was due to a power outage due to high temperatures.
Rail traffic, suspended for more than two hours on Wednesday morning in Hauts-de-France due to a power cut linked to the heat wave, returned to normal in the early afternoon, SNCF said. and RTE.
Traffic disrupted until mid-morning
The electricity transmission network recorded a brief blackout in the middle of the night, due to a breakdown of two substations near the stations, affected by the temperature difference between the scorching day of Tuesday and the coolness of the night. , said RTE.
This outage, which affected 80,000 Lille households, was resolved after about twenty minutes, around 2:35 a.m., according to the same source. But the regional command post remained plunged into darkness until around 7 a.m., due to a malfunction in the internal electrical network at the station, said the SNCF.
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This cut interrupted the circulation of TER, TGV, Thalys and Eurostar throughout Hauts-de-France until 7:45 a.m., and the stations of Lille Flandres and Lille Europe were briefly closed to the public during this period, according to the same source.
Train traffic gradually resumed, and the situation returned to normal around 2 p.m., the company’s communications department said. The prefecture had called for postponing the trips or “choose other means of transport whenever possible“.
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