Paris-Lyon TGV service severely disrupted due to cable theft, delays of up to two hours

Twenty minutes, one hour and fifty minutes, two hours... this Friday, September 12th, in the morning, delays are piling up on SNCF screens, concerning trains scheduled to run on the South-East high-speed line (LGV). That is, between Paris and Lyon. The cause: a signaling failure, "caused by a theft of cables" detected between Sully and the Creusot-Montchanin station (Saône-et-Loire), the railway group specifies on its website.

Agents are currently responding, but SNCF Réseau has announced that the problem is expected to last all day. Normal traffic will only resume "at the end of the day." "Our teams are working. The cable theft is quite significant, it could take some time. We are doing everything we can to get things running again by 4 p.m., but we hope it will resume before then," SNCF told France 3 Bourgogne .

Traffic hasn't been completely interrupted, however: some trains have been diverted to the regular line. A longer journey time is therefore expected, between twenty minutes and two hours, according to the SNCF. This is n't the first time such an incident has occurred. Cable thefts are common on railway lines. The LGV Sud-Est, affected on September 12, already experienced the same situation at the end of August.