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12 Hours Late, Night in the TGV

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On Thursday night, lightning forced the passengers of the Hendaye-Paris train to spend the night at the Bordeaux train station. Left at 16.00 hours from the Basque Country yesterday, their train arrived only at nine o'clock this Friday morning in the capital, twelve hours late. Yesterday, a flash struck an electrical installation between Dax and Bordeaux. The train remained blocked for three hours. The passengers were finally transhipped on anot…

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On Thursday night, lightning forced the passengers of the Hendaye-Paris train to spend the night at the Bordeaux train station. Left at 16.00 hours from the Basque Country yesterday, their train arrived only at nine o'clock this Friday morning in the capital, twelve hours late. Yesterday, a flash struck an electrical installation between Dax and Bordeaux. The train remained blocked for three hours. The passengers were finally transhipped on anot…

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A TGV between the Basque Country and Paris arrived almost 12 hours late. SNCF traffic was the victim of a catenary break. A breakdown that resulted in several train deletions in the South West...

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Hundreds of passengers trying to reach the capital on Thursday remained blocked for 12 hours without being able to leave.

·Levallois-Perret, France
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A breakdown "probably" due to lightning having affected an installation between Ychoux and Morcenx caused the blocking of a TGV between the Basque Country and the capital, with trains blocked for around

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A Hendaye-Paris train arrived Friday morning, 11:30 a.m. late, due to a lack of power supply "very likely caused by lightning", says SNCF Network. Traffic remains disturbed until the end of the morning.

A trip that was to last a few hours turned into a real night of galley for 500 passengers. Hendaya left Thursday afternoon, a TGV to Paris was stopped in the Landes while lightning hit a catenary, before leaving Bordeaux Friday morning, after almost 12 hours of waiting.

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franceinfo.fr broke the news on Friday, August 21, 2026.
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