After devastating bad weather du 19 May, The SNCF line between Bordeaux and Toulouse had been strongly damagedprovoking his stop for ten days. Traffic was able to resume partially on May 28 thanks to the mobilization of SNCF Réseau teams which posed provisional rails at the level of Tonneins (Lot-et-Garonne), the area where the track had been swept away by the floods.
70 agents mobilized daily
A first phase of work concerned the earthworks, namely the reconstruction of the platform weakened by the important thunderstorms. More than 160 cutting trucks and embankments were thus mobilized for this operation. On this portion, the TGV connecting Paris to Toulouse drive at 40 km/h but the SNCF indicates that a return to normal speed is scheduled for June 13.
“The Tonneins-GaGen section is currently limited to 40 km/h while the way is stabilized and the trains passages are pacing the basement and the ballast,” says SNCF network. The teams work to replace the provisional rails posed in emergency which have less disrupted traffic. Traffic at normal speed will gradually resume at 100 km/h this Tuesday, June 10, then 160 km/h on June 13 ”.
Up to 70 people per day worked in 3 x 8 on this site in order to reconstruct 200 m of tracks and rebuild the platform weakened by bad weather. SNCF network agents, but also six civil engineering and public works companies have been mobilized. The replacement of the provisional rails has spread over the first two weeks of June, for six seven -hour nights so as not to disturb rail traffic.
