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#TGVTuesday

I made it to Paris at 13:44, 73 minutes after I was supposed to. I had 57 minutes to change from Gare de l'Est to Gare de Lyon, and that barely game me enough time to navigate the metro system, including a change in train, and to grab something to eat on the train, which sadly was Chez McDó - a known quantity when travelling is generally a good thing - before heading to the platform to get on the next TGV to Barcelona. I am sat in a single chair with a table, and on the other side of the passage is an adorable puppy accompanying a young french couple.

Cloudflare outage notwithstanding, coverage on this line is dicey at best. Which is really quite something to say when this train line was the poster boy for your entire high speed effort.

I also suspect the reason the onboard wifi kept timing out may have been cloudflare related. Though it's not always been great, it's never been *this* bad before.

SoI spent much of it working offline on the #ICEAgeChallenge

#TGVTuesday

...And we've just overtaken the stuck TGV.

High Speed Lines have regular sidings along the route that are basically stopping points that can be used for when this sort of thing happens, or to park maintenance vehicles when they need to get out of the way. There are also regularly spaced points that allow the train to change tracks, and either run alongside or overtake another train, something that is useful when you have trains with different max speeds taking the same line.

In this case, we slowed down, changed tracks, and then honked as we approached and overtook the stuck train. We're now speeding up and heading back to our 300km/h line speed.

Anyway, I'm now running 67 minutes late, which means that my lunch reservation in the beautiful Le Train Bleu restaurant at Gare de Lyon, will have to be cancelled, and I'll have to make do with something a lot less appealing, but faster, at the less ornate parts of the station.

https://www.seat61.com/train-bleu-restaurant.htm

#TGVTuesday

This SNCF Jingle post is brought to you by a massive delay whilst stuck at Strasbourg Station. Having previously been Bahned this morning on the german side of this trip, we've now been thoroughly Chemin de Ferred. Apparently a train that was ahead of us on the high speed line has broken down, and they had to work out what to do about it.

From what I've been able to gather, we've moved onto single track operation on the LGV leading out of Strasbourg. #TGVTuesday