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During the stormy episode on Tuesday evening, August 13 in Isère, the power supplies of the SNCF Grenoble-Lyon and Grenoble-Chambéry lines suffered damage that deprived customers of trains all the end of yesterday and all this Wednesday morning. A lightning strike in particular damaged “600 meters of catenaries” indicated the prefecture of Isère, near Saint-André-le-Gaz between Lyon and Grenoble.
Shortly after 2 p.m., the X SNCF TER AURA account indicated the end of repairs and a resumption of traffic between Chambéry and Grenoble. The same source also indicates a resumption “very progressive“between Lyon and Grenoble even if its teams”continue their work on the tracks to repair the damage caused by the violent storms“.
