A boy named Felix was born on Sunday morning on a high-speed train connecting France and Germany, the French railway company SNCF said on Monday, according to AFP.

Around 8:00 a.m., an hour after ICE 9571 departed Paris, the driver was told that the female passenger had begun to have contractions and her water had broken. He immediately notified the operations center that manages the TGV Est line.

On the train, after a call on board the train, a doctor came to help a young woman who lives in Germany, the press secretary said.

The train made an emergency stop at 8:10 a.m. at the Lorraine TGV station in Louvain, in the Moselle, so the woman could receive specialized care. But “due to an emergency situation, the birth took place on the train,” she added.

“Everything went well,” and the newborn boy, named Felix, was born around 9:10 a.m., she continued. Firefighters took the mother and child to the hospital.

The train, which was supposed to connect Paris with Stuttgart, resumed its journey one hour and twenty minutes late and did not go beyond Karlsruhe (in the south-west of Germany).