Thankfully the lass’s friend and other passengers sounded the emergency alarm, and the train stopped at the next station (they can’t just stop it immediately or it would be right in the middle of a block and delay all the others unless it can be safely reversed / shunted which causes even more delays.
The baby was looked after by the train guards, collected by transport cops and handed back to its mum at the next station. it looks like she only got words of advice which is fair enough as it clearly wasn’t a deliberate attempt to abandon the child – until 2000s(?) trains had smoking carriages, so this wouldn’t so likely to happen.
NL : Moeder stapt uit TGV voor sigaret, trein vertrekt met haar baby – RTL Nieuws
FR : Angers. Elle oublie son bebe dans le TGV a cause d’une pause cigarette | Courrier de l’Ouest
