Young woman forgets her handbag on the train and is completely desperate: Great willingness to help ensures a happy ending

These are times when you soak up stories like this: a young woman forgets her handbag on the train.

Thanks to great willingness to help, there is a happy ending. 

Peiting - It is around half past five in the evening when Margit Kastner from Peiting goes for a walk in the northern section of the train station.

A young woman crosses her path - “She sobbed loudly and was completely upset.

At first I thought something bad had happened to her. "

In fact, something happened to the 21-year-old that is usually a disaster: the woman has finished work and is on the train home from her job in Schongau.

In Peiting, she gets off the train briefly to deposit her bike, which she will need later for a mini job.

The train continues surprisingly fast - with the stranger's handbag, in which there are keys, wallet and mobile phone.

In addition: the young woman has a migration background.

In Germany she has neither relatives nor confidants to turn to.

It is only with difficulty that she can explain to Margit Kastner what happened to her.

At the control center you immediately respond to the call for help

She, in turn, does not hesitate long, dials the train number. The computer-controlled answering machine there wants to sell her tickets, but she doesn't get any help. In her need she chooses "110". "I was expecting an attack, because that is actually not an emergency." At least not in the sense of the actual emergency call. For the young woman it is, of course, a catastrophe, “she was finished with the world. She wouldn't even have got into her apartment. "

The opposite of "Anschiss" is the case: In the rescue control center, the helper is reassured, "they were incredibly nice".

Plan A: A police patrol is supposed to get on the train and look for the handbag.

In fact, the patrol is on another mission at this very moment.

Plan B is needed.

Bavarian Regiobahn (BRB) and the Federal Police are notified.

"However, the train was already on its way to Augsburg."

In the meantime, Margit Kastner has taken the broken up young woman home with her.

She received several calls from the police about the current state of affairs.

A train attendant combed the train and found the bag.

A miracle: everything is still there, nothing is missing.

The train attendant hands over the bag he has found at the Schongau train station

Said train attendant is now supposed to take the return train to deliver the bag to Schongau. The question: will he make it on time? Margit Kastner and the 21-year-old drive to the Schongau train station by car. “At that point we still didn't know whether the conductor had made it to the return train.” There, too, she was warmly welcomed by the railway staff with understanding. And: It works. The train attendant is there, handing over the bags at the station in Schongau. "The young woman was overjoyed."

After the campaign, Margit Kastner comes to the conclusion: "It doesn't often happen that you are treated so nicely and helpful," she says happily about the many lovely people at the police and BRB who helped her and the young woman so easily .

The fact that she is one of the helpers is by no means important to her.

"For me this is a matter of course."

A courageous woman from Peiting and many helpers made an unknown young woman very happy that autumn evening - simply for the sake of helping.