A breakdown in self-propelled system from a train of the French company Ouigo in the tunnel that connects the Madrid stations of Chamartin and Gate of Atocha has caused traffic delays for almost an hour.
The incident on the train with destination Valenciarecorded around 11:45 a.m. this Saturday, has already been resolvedas reported by the railway infrastructure manager, Adif.
From Renfe confirm that they have been affected, for their part, five trains long-distance and high-speed trains heading to different destinations in the Levant region.
Just a week before, an incident occurred that could have ended in tragedy when derail a train in a tunnel that links the same affected stations. “If they don’t derail him with the change of needle, he was going straight against an Iryo who It was full of passengers and that he was stopped waiting for the maneuver to finish,” said Pablo San José, workshop coordinator for the CGT railway sector.
San José believes that the accident is due to “a bunch of nonsense.” The train that derailed was performing a maneuver “wrongly”: “A train without brakes has to go in a sandwich, with one car in front and another behind with traction and brakes, that is something that all railway workers know.”
