Ile-de-France: a giant blackout paralyzes the RER B for several hours, traffic gradually resumes – franceinfo

RER B traffic was interrupted for several hours, Monday, September 20, between Gare du Nord (Paris) and Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) stations. “Cables were damaged during a construction incident that occurred this morning around 9 am in the town of Aubervilliers, as part of modernization work on the RER B”, second busiest suburban train line in Europe after line A, said SNCF Réseau. The work currently carried out should make it possible to “cut the network” and create isolated catenary sections, so that an incident does not spread down the line.

This rare scale failure affected hundreds of thousands of passengers. Train traffic gradually resumed Monday afternoon, with “about twelve trains per hour scheduled from 5.30 p.m.”, added the track manager. Earlier today, the RATP recommended consulting possible alternative routes on the line blog.

Excluding the pandemic, nearly a million people use the RER B every day. Operational incidents are almost daily on this line, especially as the CDG Express site, a fast train to link the center of Paris in 2025. at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, complicates the situation in the north of the capital.