21.   A French judge Friday declined to release the jailed chairman of the French national railway company, Loik Le Floch-Prigent, indicted for financial malpractice.

22.   A French railway strike hardened on Sunday on its fourth day with only one out of four scheduled trains running, the state-owned company SNCF said.

23.   A spokesman for the French state railways SNCF could not say whether the blast occurred inside a train or on the tracks.

24.   All rail services including high-speed TGV trains were being diverted for the duration of the operation, causing delays of up to an hour, the French railways said.

25.   Engineers from the French state railway company SNCF said they still did not know the cause of the derailment, but added they had found a broken rail.

26.   Engineers from the French state railway company SNCF used two cranes to hoist the carriages.

27.   Engineers from the French state railway company SNCF brought in two cranes to try to put the train back on the tracks.

28.   Experts from the French state railway company were assessing damage to the train to see if it could be put back on the tracks.

29.   Through trains on nearby lines were also diverted, causing delays of up to an hour, the French railways said.

30.   There was no official comment by the French railway company SNCF on the incident.