The particular prepare that was speculated to convey many European parliamentarians again to Brussels on the finish of the plenary session held this week in Strasbourg encountered a breakdown on Thursday, and passengers had been stranded for greater than 4 hours on the station of the Alsatian capital.
The particular TGV, which was supposed to go away Strasbourg at 2:57 PM, lastly departed round 7:15 PM.
“At 2:45 PM, I noticed an explosion within the locomotive of the TGV with a big cloud of smoke popping out,” mentioned to AFP Emmanuel Foulon, a parliamentary assistant who’s a part of the “caravan” of elected officers shuttling between Brussels and Strasbourg one week a month.
“This prepare, transporting workers of the European Parliament, had 740 passengers. The passengers, all unhurt, had been evacuated to the station corridor,” mentioned the firefighters.
In October 2023, a switching error despatched the TGV of European parliamentarians to Disneyland, inflicting a 45-minute delay in arrival at Strasbourg. (October 10, 2024)