<br /> <p>Quiet conditions in a train station in Lille, northern France, made for excellent acoustics as a piano player improvised over Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata during the first day of a rail workers’ strike on April 3</p><p>The head of the SNCF, France’s state-owned rail company, said that only 10 to 20 percent of trains were expected to be running during the day, La Depeche reported</a>.</p><p>The four main rail workers unions supported the strike, which was organised in opposition to government plans to make the SNCF profitable. Some unions see this as a step toward privatization, Reuters said</a>. Credit: Claire Lefebvre, La Voix du Nord via Storyful</p><br />
