2023-11-01 19:01:43
Part of north-west Europe – passing through the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and France – is preparing, during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, to face rain and violent winds from Storm Ciaran.
Practically no P trains will run during peak hours on Thursday, while some IC connections will be canceled because of storm Ciaran, warns the Belgian National Railway Company (SNCB) on its website on Wednesday, adding that no train “will run between Belgium and France either”.
These precautions naturally have consequences on the rail network which will be severely disrupted, writes SNCB. “Certain trains will be canceled. Others will run according to a route or an adapted schedule,” indicates the latter.
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Concretely, the IC connections Ostend-Ghent-Saint-Pierre-Antwerp, Kortrijk-Brussels-Schaerbeek, Antwerp-Central-Lier-Hasselt, Brussels-Midi-Namur-Liège-Saint-Lambert, Tournai-Lille-Flandres and Antwerp-Central-Mechelen -Bruxelles-Midi will not be insured.
Others like Kortrijk-Mouscron-Lille-Flandres, Tournai-Brussels-Brussels Airport, Brussels Airport-Braine-le-Comte-Mons, Brussels-Midi-Namur-Arlon/Luxembourg, Quiévrain-Bruxelles-Liège-Guillemins, Brussels Airport-Namur-Dinant or Mons-Liège-Guillemins-Herstal will be modified.
“Most S and L trains are running normally,” adds SNCB, which nevertheless advises travelers to plan their journeys in advance via its website or application.
The railway infrastructure manager, Infrabel, had already announced a whole series of measures earlier in the day. No trains, for example, ran between Bruges and the coast on Thursday while national journeys travel at a maximum of 80 km/h.
Orange alert in several provinces
The Royal Meteorological Institute (IRM) announced wind gusts of between 70 km/h in the east of the country and 110 km/h in the west of the territory. She issued a orange alert for the Coast and West Flandersyellow for the rest of the Belgian provinces.
After passing through France, storm Ciaran should, in fact, be accompanied by winds with an intensity of 6 to 7 Beaufort over a large part of the territory, and around 10 Beaufort at sea.
“Attach outdoor furniture”
Infrabel invites residents near the railway “to bring in or tie up their outdoor furniture, trash cans and any other object likely to be blown away by the wind and which could end up in the tracks”.
If, despite everything, objects were to end up on the tracks, he asks “not to go and recover them” on your own and to “call the number 112” which was activated on Wednesday afternoon for non-urgent requests for assistance. help to firefighters.
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