Big mess in some TER of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté this Saturday, October 29
It all started with a broken down train near Dijon this Saturday, a breakdown that would have caused delays on several trains throughout the day. At Laroche-Migenne station in Yonne, delays ranging from 15 minutes to three hours for trains from Lyon Part-Dieu and a two-hour delay for a train arriving from Paris-Bercy were observed this Saturday evening.
Departing from this same station, three trains left 10 minutes late for Auxerre Saint-Gervais station for the first, while the other two, bound for Dijon-Ville, saw their departures postponed by 45 minutes and 2h30 on the schedule initially planned.
At Paris-Bercy station, many travelers who had planned to board the TER at 3:33 p.m. had to give up because the trains were full and fall back on the next train. Except that the situation is not getting better. The second TER is just as crowded.s, “When I arrived at Bercy, my train was not leaving so I decided to take this second train which was going to Laroche-Migennes, hoping to catch a train there for Dijon and continue my journey. On arrival our at Laroche there is indeed a train for Dijon but it is announced with 2h30 delay… The SNCF staff tried to reassure us by telling us that at worst, we will sleep in Dijon. , it missed…” says Edith, met at Laroche-Migennes station.
“We were supposed to take the 3:33 p.m. at Paris Bercy and be back in Dijon for 6:30 p.m. But we couldn’t board this overloaded train so we chose to take the next train and stop at Laroche- Migennes. The next train to Dijon was scheduled for 6:59 p.m. but we already know that it is at least 2 hours late. The big unknown now is whether this train will be crowded or not.”says another traveler.
In the end, everything was sorted out around 11 p.m. on their arrival at Dijon-Ville station, 2.5 hours late, since the most struggling passengers on the train from Laroche-Migennes who had missed their connections were entitled to a dozen taxis put available to them by the SNCF to allow them to reach Dole or Chalon-sur-Saône. Without being able to give more explanations, an SNCF manager in Dijon recognizes “incidents” this Saturday while another rejected the thesis of the breakdown. “These delays cannot be linked to this because this fault was repaired very quickly.” The delays observed on these trains could be, according to the latter, the consequence of problems occurring outside our region.