Transport· Published on October 5, 2026

POLT Line: Over Five Hours' Delay as Limoges-Paris Train Breaks Down

Event date: Monday, October 5, 2026

Having left Limoges on time at 6.03 a.m. on Monday, a Paris-bound train never reached La Souterraine, halted after barely thirty minutes by a locomotive failure. The replacement engine expected from Brive around 9.30 a.m. never turned up, and passengers were eventually detrained on the open track near Fromental, in Haute-Vienne, to board replacement coaches. Due in Paris at about 9.30 a.m., they only reached the capital in the early afternoon, more than five hours late. The breakdown disrupted services along the whole Paris-Orléans-Limoges-Toulouse line all day.