Big accidents apart, I generally post things from France if I think there is some scope for comparison, or a parallel with what happens on the
FGW▸ home patch. I rather hope that's not true in this case.
The magazine
Le Point put a story on line on Wednesday (18/6/14) about some kind of celebration in a major signalling control centre west of Paris - involving those on duty at the time - that involved a lot of highly alcoholic punch. There is a very limited secretly-filmed video, but the sound track is what really counts. The article suggests that there was a near miss in signalling terms as a result, though the jargon used makes it hard to tell if that's real or just journalism.
The story also said their source reported this to management, and not much was done, but he later lost his job after failing a promotion exam (which looks like a pretext). Subsequently he has gone public on it, citing his safety concerns. Then,
as reported a day later,
SNCF▸ announced that they are holding an enquiry - though they gave the date of the event as February 2013, when it was really this year.
So far this has been referred to elsewhere in French media, though no more than that, and as far as I can see there is nothing in English.