Oh deer. An animal strike makes my trip rather Silly

Today should have been simple enough.A TER train Nuits-sous-Ravières - Paris Bercy, a TGV Paris Nord - Lille Flandres, then SNCB IC trains Lille Flandres - Kortrijk and Kortrijk - Brugge.But a half an hour out of Nuits, bang. The train hits something. I was in the first carriage and you really felt it. Turns out we had collided with a deer on the line.Within 60 minutes SNCF staff were on site to inspect the train, within 75 minutes we managed to inch our way slowly the dozen or so kilometres to Laroche Migennes, the next major station. Other than the lousy information provided on board, that, it turns out, was the only part of the whole trip that was handled adequately.Another train had waited at Laroche for the one I was on (and due to the animal strike had to be taken out of service). But I reached Paris with 70 minutes of delay.But Paris - Lille does not run an hourly service which you would think it ought to. Not like Lille is a major city with more than a million people in its…