It was necessary to be very patient. 343 passengers of a TGV found themselves stuck for nearly five hours in their train near Laval, in Mayenne, report our colleagues at Ouest-France. Their train never being able to leave, they were evacuated and escorted to another TGV present on a neighboring track by the firefighters at the end of the afternoon.
The train left Rennes station at 12:30 this Sunday and was supposed to arrive in Montpellier six hours later. But due to a power failure, the TGV got stuck near Laval at around 1:30 p.m.
They will never reach their destination
The passengers on the train were stuck in their stationary carriage for almost five hours. It was not until shortly after 6 p.m. that firefighters were able to intervene and transfer the passengers to a train on the opposite track.
The 343 passengers, including thirteen people with reduced mobility and five SNCF staff, were transferred without any problems. Their new train turned around and returned to Rennes. According to Ouest-France, all TGV customers will be compensated up to 150%.
“Traffic has been interrupted in the Rennes-Laval direction and it is difficult in the other direction,” the railway company told our colleagues. Traffic should return to normal early Monday morning.
