[Gocamino] Railway line Bayonne to St Jean Pied de Port.

[Linda McInnis]

Great news!
Thanks for sharing.

Linda in Colorado

-----Original Message----- 
From: Tim
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 8:01 AM
To: GoCAMINO at oakapple.net
Subject: [Gocamino] Railway line Bayonne to St Jean Pied de Port.

Hi,
     Some of you may already know that the line from Bayonne to SJPdP
suffered serious damage as the result of a massive storm and flood over
the night of 4/5th July last year.  The river Nive, normally placid at
that time of year, rose from a gentle trickle of 15 cu metres per second
to 800 cu metres per second.  The line was seriously damaged, both track
and bridges and many of us feared the cost would be so great that it
would never be repaired.

This, happily turns out not to be the case, SNCF and it's contractors
are not hard at work restoring and improving the line. At a cost of €40
million we will have an improved service completed by the end of October
this year.

This may not be of great benefit to those of you wanting to travel this
year, but the service is still running as a bus service and this
restoration project speaks volumes for the confidence shown by the
authorities in the importance of transport connections to St Jean Pied
de Port.

While I'm writing this I will take the opportunity to give all on
GoCamino our best wishes for 2015.
Tim & Louisa.
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