The dumpling. Saturday, July 19, a train that connected Brest to Paris did not stop at Lamballe station, leaving 80 travelers on the tile in the small station in Côtes-d’Armor. Inside the train, a dozen passengers were also surprised to see the TGV continue on its way without stopping. A technical defect? Not even! “We are faced with a human error. The driver did not make the planned stop, “said the SNCF, which” apologizes “to all the passengers who have undergone the consequences of this forgetfulness.
According to the SNCF, no signal or alarm are started when the stations are approached, and it is therefore up to the driver to memorize his journey and the stops to be made. “It is a very rare, almost non -existent incident”, assures the railway company to 20 Minutesconfirming the information of Telegram.
It was a little more than 5.30 p.m. when the train crossed Lamballe station without stopping there. On the platform, passengers are dumbfounded and see their train spinning before their eyes. Fortunately for them, they will be taken care of quickly. Alerted, the SNCF woke up a TER which was not planned at the planning to take the 80 travelers to Rennes, before booking places for these shipwrecked people in a TGV riding towards Paris. According to the railway company, travelers have accused a simple delay of about thirty minutes.
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As for the travelers who hoped to go down in Lamballe, they had to continue their journey to Rennes, where they took a train making the opposite way. “We offered them a good taxi to bring those who needed it,” promises the SNCF, which salutes the responsiveness of its teams to treat this hiccup.