Cat on Train Tracks? 20 Minutes to Retrieve It, France Says

Pet Escapes And Falls On Train Track? 20 Minutes To Retrieve It, Says France

In 2023, a departing train in Paris ran over a cat that had escaped from a traveller's bag, in a case that caused an uproar in France.

After the outcry aroused by the death of the cat Neko on the tracks at Montparnasse station in 2023, the SNCF has finally adopted an official protocol to regulate situations involving animals lost on the tracks.

The French railway transport company SNCF, which did not have a clear rule for the case where a company animal arrived under a garage security, decided, after two years of deliberation, that in such a situation, leaving...

The lack of clear rules was revealed by the crash of the Neko cat at the Paris-Montparnasse station in 2023.

Cat on train tracks? 20 minutes to retrieve it, France says

PARIS: In 2023, a departing train in Paris ran over a cat that had escaped from a traveller's bag, in a case that caused an uproar in France. Despite requests from the animal's owners to delay the departure and rescue the animal, the Paris-Bordeaux high-speed TGV train with 800 passengers on board left, sl

After publicized accidents, SNCF has developed a protocol to try to recover the animal, while limiting delays for passengers.