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Hundreds of passengers wait in the concourse of Gare Montparnasse, while no trains are running due to 'sabotage' on several high-speed TGV train lines. Some 250,000 people are affected over the course of the day, and 800,000 over the entire weekend of the holiday rush and the opening of the Olympic Games. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron attends the unveiling of a life-size model of the engine of the new TGV M at the Gare de Lyon in Paris, to mark the 40th anniversary of the high-speed TGV. The latest model is expected to hit the rails in 2024. COMPLETES VIDI9MZ9PP_EN IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron and SNCF Chairman Jean-Pierre Farandou attend a ceremony at the Gare de Lyon in Paris to mark the 40th anniversary of the TGV (Train Grande Vitesse, Eds.). IMAGES
Aleksander Skarlatos, one of three Americans who helped foil a terrorist attack on board a French high-speed Thalys train in 2015, says he does not consider himself a "hero". He has just testified in Paris at the court where a 31-year-old jihadist, Moroccan Ayoub El Khazzani, is being tried along with three co-defendants. El Khazzani was wrestled to the floor of the Brussels to Paris train by Skarlatos and three other men after he had opened fire. IMAGES
French ambulances bring patients suffering from the coronavirus to the Nancy train station in order to be transferred via a specially-adapted medical train from the Grand Est region to New Aquitaine, and relieve congested hospitals. The Grand Est region is one of the regions most affected by the coronavirus pandemic. IMAGES
A high-speed TGV train locomotive derailed early this morning while travelling from the eastern French city of Strasbourg to Paris, injuring the driver, national rail operator SNCF said. Images of rescue workers at the site of the accident near Vendenheim, around 15 kilometres (9 miles) north of Strasbourg. IMAGES