Renfe reported around 10:00 p.m. that train circulation began to be restored at Madrid’s Atocha station after the Security Forces and Bodies have managed to evacuate the person who, being in an unauthorized area, has forced the power to be cut off and has caused the interruption of the services of AVE, Avant, Avlo and the Cercanías lines C3, C4, C5 and C7.
Through a publication on the social network “the circulation of incoming and outgoing trains will gradually be normalized.” “The trains will run with delays,” Cercanías Madrid added from its profile on the same social network.
For his part, the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, has announced through his profile that “the person who caused the power to be cut off on all the tracks at the Atocha Station has already been arrested and evacuated.” .
The aforementioned railway services have been interrupted from 7:30 p.m. hours since the presence of an unauthorized person on the upper walkway of the station has forced train circulation to be cut off, while the railway operator activated the emergency protocol for this purpose at that time.
“At the request of the Security Forces and Bodies, The voltage has been cut at the Madrid Puerta de Atocha station due to the presence of a person at an unauthorized access point. Suspended circulation of High Speed, Long and Medium Distance and Commuter trains,” the railway operator added through its information account in X.
Likewise, shortly before 8:00 p.m. and as a consequence of the collapse situation, the Cercanías Madrid account in X reported the presence of people on the road near the station.
Previous incident in the Atocha-Chamartín bird tunnel
In parallel, Renfe has announced a few hours before that circulation in the AVE tunnel that connects the Atocha and Chamartín stations has been interrupted by a derailment.
The railway company has detailed in a statement that The incident occurred due to “an axle exit in the tail unit of an empty material during a maneuver”.
“The unit was empty and the driver was not injured,” the operator added.
Likewise, Renfe has indicated that this incident is especially affecting AVE rail traffic that connects Madrid with the east of the country.
Minister Óscar Puente has clarified through a publication in X that this incident occurred at 4:45 p.m. due to the derailment of a high-speed train that was being towed to the workshop: ““This incident, whose causes are still unknown, has no relationship with the situation experienced at the Atocha station,” has added.
As a consequence of this event, the trains end or begin their journey at the Puerta de Atocha station, from which travelers are relocated to a Cercanías shuttle service to Madrid Chamartín, a station from which they will continue their train journey to their destination.
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