Park Mâcon-Loach-TGV

The station of Mâcon-Loach-TGV is the station established on South-eastern LGV which serves the town of Mâcon and the south-east of the Saône-et-Loire.

The station is located at a few kilometers only downtown area of Mâcon, in the commune of Loché. It is located at the edge of the Trunk road 79, a 2×2 ways towards Mâcon and Moulins.

Installations

Like the new station of the Creusot, this station is very basic in its architecture.

Service road

TGV

This station is served by some daily TGV, in particular Paris - Geneva and Paris - Grenoble.

Correspondence local

It is connected to the traditional network by bus: buses FOR THE THIRD TIME ensure of the shuttles towards Mâcon and Villefranche-sur-Saône.

History

The December 14th 1992, first accident of a TGV circulating at high speed: with 7:33, the TGV 920 Annecy-Paris, ensured by oar 56, runs off the line to 270 km/h with the passage in the station of Mâcon-Loach TGV. Only a carrying Bogie, located between the trailers R3 and R4 left the rails, the remainder of the oar did not run off the line and with not preserved its stability until the stop at the exit of the station.

The cause of the accident is charged to a failure of the material: wheel locking of a bogie in consequence of the failure of an electronics component; the faulty bogie ran off the line by crossing the Aiguillage S at the entry of the Gare.

The assessment was relatively benign: no casualty in the train, 25 people who awaited another TGV on the quay are slightly wounded by projections of ballast.

See too

List of the new stations on lines at high speed in France

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