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(13 Jun 2013) SHOTLIST
1. Top shot of Gare de Lyon train station in Paris with stationary train, hundreds of people waiting
2. Mid of passengers waiting at Gare de Lyon station
3. Mid of train in station
4. Wide of passengers waiting for the trains and information screen
5. Mid of electronic information screen
6. Close up of screen reading (French) "National strike -13 June 2013 - SNCF is inviting you to delay your trip"
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Lucie Simon, Passenger whose train was cancelled:
"My train was at 9:15 and I arrived at 8:30 to be sure to catch it because I knew about the strikes. There were no announcements made and maybe the train at 10:07 might go where I am heading to, Nimes. But lots of people are saying that there will not be enough space in the train because it will be the only train of the day heading to the south."
8. Mid of passengers on platform and train
9. Mid of train station interior, passengers waiting
10. SOUNDBITE (French) Brigitte Chavence, passenger from Sete:
"The train is cancelled, a lot of trains are cancelled heading in that direction, so the only one, as I have understood, is the one leaving this morning. There are a lot of people but it is going to be all right."
11. Mid of passengers sitting in station
12. SOUNDBITE (French) Denis Robert, passenger from Montpellier:
"Concerning the strikes, I think that there are wrongs on both sides, from the employees and the employers, but we are always left as fools. We are in the middle of it all and we wait. What can we do? Nothing. We have paid for our ticket and that's it."
13. Mid of passengers waiting for trains
STORYLINE
After two days of air traffic controller strikes, French rail workers walked off the job Thursday to protest a reorganisation of the
national rail and train companies.
Hundreds of people packed on to platforms at the Gare de Lyon in Paris, many looking up at information screens urging them to delay their trips because of the strike.
The strike comes as an action by air traffic controllers protesting an EU plan to simplify the continent's patchwork airspace ends.
Thousands of flights around France were cancelled over the past two days, but traffic was returning to normal Thursday.
But the woes of air travellers are not over. Tourists trying to get to or from the Paris airports by train are now running into the rail strike.
Like the air traffic controllers, SNCF workers are protesting a plan linked to EU-wide policy that involves privatisation of some transport services that were long in state hands.
"I think that there are wrongs on both sides, from the employees and the employers, but we are always left as fools. We are in the middle of it all and we wait. What can we do? Nothing," said traveller Denis Robert, trying to get home to the southern city of Montpellier from Paris.
Up to 70 percent of train journeys in France will be cancelled on Thursday.
The action began Wednesday night, affecting overnight international travel, and ends Friday morning.
Commuter traffic around Paris will be especially hard hit, with only one in three trains guaranteed.
The national railway company, SNCF, tried to limit cancellations and disruptions to high-speed links to London and other
international destinations.


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