« After the war, priority was the restoration of the rail network » – Liberation

No signaling, traveler on the tracks or railway workers. This time, it's a historical find, A bomb dating from the Second World Warwhich paralyzed the transport of the Paris region and the north of France this Friday, March 7. The mastodon, which slept underground since the Allied bombings of 1944, was detected by SNCF workers during the night, « In the middle of the tracks » leading to the Gare du Nord. The warhead has « Been found 2 meters deep by a earthmoving machine » On a site in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis),, explained SNCF travelers to Release, In « An area known for its remains of the Second World War ”.

If the demining services are more used to being commissioned on the side of the beaches of Normandy, Brest or even in the Grand Est, the Paris region is also full of sleeping bombs. In 2015, in Noisy-le-Sec (Seine-Saint-Denis), two devices were found in a new station development site as part of the Grand Paris Express works. In 2019, a bomb excavated in Hauts-de-Seine had interrupted the traffic between Saint-Lazare station and the near western suburbs of Paris.