After the frustrated passengers approached the ‘trains of anger’ on Tuesday to protest chronic delays and cancellations along two French rail lines, the place reveals which train routes are the worst for interruptions.
Despite the fact that the France Train operator, SNCF, has a generally positive reputation, especially among travelers from outside the country, the dishes of elected officials and residents approached ‘trains of anger’ in Paris in the improvements and investments and investments of Tesday.
The protesters focused specifically on two lines: the Paris-Nevers-Clermont and Paris-Limoges routes, They have witnessed a growing number of serious delays, interruptions and cancellations.
The organizers hoped to gather between 500 and 800 protesters, together with railway workers, at the Gare d’Aluslitz station in Paris.
The Paris-Nevers-Clermont route has been described as “one of the worst lines in France”, and passengers reported a delay of four hours on January 31, and one of the almost three and a half hours on March 1.
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In accordance with the data published by SNCF in 2024, and informed by Franceinfo10 percent of trains on this route were delayed or canceled, which, for all problems, places it among the best performance lines.
What is considered late?
Confusedly, the SNCF timing rules consider that if the trip of a train is more than three hours, that train arrives in time if it arrives within 15 minutes later at its scheduled arrival time.
In addition, the Guardian Dog of Transport of France, the TRANSPORT SECUTION AUTHORHe only classifies a service as ‘canceled’ if it is an out -of -service tasks after 4 pm the day before it is executed.
With this in mind, here are the railway lines of sausages in France for delays and cancellations for TGV and Interités services.
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Paris-Austerlitz-Briançon
In 2024, a surprising 49 percent of the trains between the capital and the commune of Hautes-Alpes are the last or canceled. In February alone, 90 percent of the trips arrived later than the ‘on time’ window of 15 minutes.
On March 14, Philippe Tabarot transport minister announced that 180 locomotives and 27 locomotives will currently replace the operational rolling stock, much of what is approaching 50 years, by 2030.
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Paris
A long trip, this. Slow night trains take more than 12 hours, while the fastest TGV trip is closer to six of five hours.
Of the 640 most slow intercted trains that extended between Paris-Austerlitz and Nice-Ville in 2024, one in three (33 percent) was delayed or canceled, including half of the services in June last year. It was reported that some were delayed in more than three hours.
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The planned investment in the Paris-Briançon route is expected to benefit the users of the Paris-Nice line. The two lines share the same section before separating, one towards the hautas-Alpes, the other towards the coast d’Azur.
Bordeaux – Marseille
The second busiest interites line in France faced similar levels of delays in 2024, when 31 percent of trains were delayed or canceled. The reason: rolling stock and ruins infrastructure.
According to the Regional newspaper La Provence, in January 2024, the users of this line had to deal with a breakdown that caused delays in three hours on later trips.
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Lyon – Marne la Vallée
The two-hour TGV service epiperly between Lyon Part-Dieu and Marne-La-Vallée, where you will find Disneyland Paris, saw 24 percent of its delayed or canceled trains in 2024. On average, trains arrived 30 minutes late in their terminal.
According to SNCF, most of these delays were due to traffic management problems, followed by infrastructure problems and ‘external causes’.
Lyon – Lille
In 2024, 23 percent of the trains between Lyon and Lille were late or canceled. On average, trains arrived 34 minutes late upon arrival. According to SNCF, most of these delays were also due to traffic and infrastructure management problems.
What resource do I have if my train is delayed or canceled?
You can qualify for a complete or partial refund.
In high -speed internal trains TGV Inoui and regional interites services, cannot obtain any reimbursements for a delay or less than 30 minutes.
However, you can recover 25 percent of your ticket for 30 minutes and two hours of delays; 50 percent of your ticket returns for a delay or two or three hours; And 75 percent return for a delay of more than three hours.
For Ouigo’s budgetary services, it does not qualify for compensation if the delay is less than an hour. You can recover 25 percent for a delay or one hour to two hours, and you can recover half of your ticket for a delay of more than two hours.
You can find instructions on the SNCF website.
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