Overview
- SNCF Réseau is suspending all traffic on the Paris–Orléans–Limoges–Toulouse line for three weekends in May, with SNCF Voyageurs running replacement buses.
- The program installs a new computerized signal post in Vierzon and strengthens the line’s electrical supply to improve reliability and safety.
- Crews are also replacing the overhead contact wire between Orléans and Paris during the first May shutdown, which is the cable that feeds power to trains.
- Users’ group Urgence Ligne POLT, led by Jean-Claude Sandrier, says the operator is favoring works over riders and recalls a promise to keep one track open during upgrades.
- These interruptions arrive as Île-de-France faces many planned closures on RER, metro and Transilien lines, compounding longer trips for travelers this long weekend after a near year-long POLT renovation wrapped in late March.