SNCF announced on Sunday July 25 that it had interrupted its connections between Montparnasse station and the southwest of the country after a landslide that cost the life of a worker at the end of the afternoon.
A worker died on a construction site, buried under the rubble after a landslide at the station of Massy-Palaiseau (Essonne), according to the prosecutor of Evry. Following a subsidence of land near the tracks on the site of a bridge in Massy, the emergency services requested an interruption of TGV traffic, a spokesperson for SNCF told Agence France -Press (AFP), without confirming the death of a worker.
Very “unstable” and “difficult to access” environment
According to the Essonne firefighters, the collapse took place in a drilling site of more than thirty meters, near the railway tracks. The immediate environment is very “Unstable” and ” difficult to access “ due in particular to heavy rainfall in recent days. The Essonne prefecture tweeted have activated the departmental operational center for the management of the consequences of the accident.
“All my condolences to the family of the worker who died in a landslide near the #Massy station. SNCF traffic unfortunately had to be interrupted, my thoughts go out to all the travelers stranded on this return Sunday ”, tweeted Valerie Pécresse, president of the Ile-de-France region. For his part, the Minister for Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, was to go to the scene of the accident in the evening, we learned from his team. “All my thoughts are with the relatives of the agent swept away by a landslide on the RER site in Massy. For safety reasons, the tunnel where the TGV Sud-Ouest and Atlantique trains run is being checked ”, he also posted on social networks.
“All destinations from and to Paris-Montparnasse are stopped”, had warned the SNCF, specifying that about thirty trains are concerned at the Montparnasse station. Travelers to or from the South West and Brittany are asked to postpone their trip, as significant delays are expected. It is, for the moment, not possible to know how long the traffic will remain disturbed.