Announced several weeks ago, the strike on Wednesday 6 July, following a nationwide industrial action led by four SNCF unions, will cause a great deal of disruption on the French rail network.
While international traffic on Eurostar, Thalys and Lyria will be virtually unaffected by this movement, the railways will be able to take advantage of it, the Inoui and Ouigo TGV services will be reduced 3 trains out of 5 should be running on the East route, 3 trains out of 4 on the Atlantic and North routes and 4 trains out of 5 on the South-East route. At the same time, 2 Ouigo trains out of 3 should be running.
These disruptions will also affect Intercity traffic, with 1 train in 3 circulating on average. The Nantes-Bordeaux, Nantes-Lyon, Toulouse-Hendaye and Clermont-Béziers lines will be the worst affected, with no trains scheduled for 6 July. The same applies to night trains, which will all be cancelled on Wednesday evening, with the exception of Paris-Nice. On the other hand, on the Paris-Limoges-Toulouse and Paris-Clermont routes, only 1 train in 2 will runand one train in 3 on the Bordeaux-Marseille line. The Clermont-Lyon line will operate as normal.
On the regional network, TER traffic will be limited to an average of 2 trains out of 5. In Ile-de-France, traffic will be severely disrupted with 1 train in 2 on Transilien lines J, L, N, R and U, and on RER lines B, C, D and E. RER line A, on the other hand, is expected to operate normally.
