The derailment of a train last Saturday in the high-speed tunnel that connects the Madrid stations of Atocha and Chamartín It could have ended in tragedy. This is what Pablo San José, workshop coordinator for the CGT railway sector, reveals to this newspaper: “If they don’t derail it with the switch change, I was going straight against an Iryo that it was full of passengers and that it was stopped waiting for the maneuver to end.
“Adif’s colleagues performed a heroic act because they saved many lives. An accident in a tunnel is a mousetrap because if fire breaks in or there is an explosion as a result of the collision, no one comes out alive,” says San José. “For many railroad workers, the Torre del Bierzo accident in 1944 came to mind. in which hundreds of people died in a tunnel,” he adds.
