The rail link between Hendaia and Bordeaux will be restored on Saturday after the fires
Half of the high-speed trains will operate from Saturday, while from Sunday the service will return to full normality.
Rail services in southern Bordeaux, which have been suspended since last weekend, will resume on Saturday, although the huge fire in the area has not yet been completely extinguished.
The decision was taken by the public company SNCF Raseau, which manages the railway network, after noting that the infrastructure has "contained the fire," he said in a statement released this Friday.
Infrastructure inspection
SNCF Reseau technicians have detected major problems in signalling and systems associated with the lines being without electricity for several days, such as some batteries being unloaded, although no serious damage to the infrastructure has been detected.
The inspection has been carried out over 160 kilometresthrough reconnaissance trains and "dozens" of personnel have been mobilized, the network manager said.
Since Sunday, normality
French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot, for his part, stated in a message on social network X that half of the usual high-speed trains (TGVs) in the south-west will operate from Saturday, while on regional TER trains the service will be "almost normal."
"On Sunday, all scheduled transportation services will be provided normally, "Tabarot added.
The A63 motorway, which links Irun with Bordeaux, will be reopened this Thursday as it has been cut off for 170 kilometres by the megaincenddesignated in the French department of Gironda and will arrive at a key moment coinciding with the start of many workers' holidays on August 1.
In any case, the fire is still active and the authorities have maintained the level of alert despite the fact that the flames have been stabilized and have not exceeded 42,000 hectares of perimeter for days.
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