Train traffic in France is improving, although normality will not return until Monday

The circulation of high-speed trains (TGV) in France, which has been disrupted by a series of coordinated sabotages in the early hours of Friday, has been remarkably restored this Saturday, but a return to full normality is not expected until Monday.

This is the message conveyed by the Société Nationale des Ferrès (SNCF), which in a statement insisted that it will guarantee transport for all teams participating in the Paris Olympic Games, as well as for accredited personnel.

The Eastern corridor, which covers lines from Paris to Luxembourg and Strasbourg, operates normally from 6:30 a.m.

The same was not true of the other two, the Atlantic and North routes, which were also affected by the attacks, which involved setting fire to signalling equipment on the TGV lines at three strategic points.

On the Northern line, which runs from Paris to Lille, London, Brussels, the Netherlands and northern Germany, 70% of the usual trains are running, but with delays of between one and two hours, as they have to be diverted via the conventional line.

This Saturday, only a third of the usual number of buses were there.

70% of the TGV trains on the Atlantic lines are also in service, those that run from Paris to Brittany and other destinations in south-west France, such as Bordeaux, Toulouse or the Spanish border in the Basque Country.

That axis was the one that was most affected on Friday, as it could not be put into service until the afternoon, and only very partially.

The company had estimated that yesterday they had already seen 250,000 people affected.