Nearly 14,000 travelers are being affected this Sunday by the latest railway incidents in Madridwhich have forced 22 trains to be suspended, while 26 maintain their operations. This was stated by the general director of Business and Operations of Renfe, Óscar Gómez Barbero, in statements to the media. Specifically, Gómez Barbero has assured that on Saturday there were 3,500 affected and this Sunday 13,700.
According to this senior official from the Ministry of Transportation, efforts are being made to resolve the solution, but he does not rule out that the effects will continue tomorrow. “If we do not manage to fix the situation, we will improve a little what we have today, but now we cannot say what the situation will be like tomorrow,” he assured.
For the moment, for today, the railway operator has chosen to suppress up to 18 High Speed and Intercity services that were scheduled for this Sunday, due to the derailment of a train in the tunnel that connects Chamartín with Atocha. All of them have origin or destination in the Valencian Community and a high-speed service is added between Murcia and Chamartín.
In a statement sent this Sunday, the company that depends on the Ministry of Transport assures that it will return the amount of the tickets to the affected passengers and will maintain all the services of its ‘low cost’ Avlo train with arrival or departure from the Chamartín station. The rest of the High Speed and Alvia trips that have not been canceled and are scheduled for today will depart from the Atocha station, which is preparing for another day of high tension, after the serious delays suffered this Saturday due to the presence of a person “at an unauthorized access point”which forced railway traffic to be cut off.
This incident occurred hours after, in the tunnel that connects Chamartín and Atocha, a train without passengers suffered a derailment and was overturned due to, as Renfe explained, “an axle exit in the tail unit of an empty material during a maneuver. According to the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, on the social network X (former Twitter) it was a convoy that was being towed to the workshop. The accident injured two maintenance employees of the railway company who were able to get out of the train on their own and onto the street to be treated by Samur due to some minor injuries. Both incidents left a total of 8,000 passengers affected this Saturday, according to Renfe calculations.
Looking ahead to Sunday’s day, Renfe says it has activated an extraordinary operations plan to mitigate possible effects on travelers with an organizational deployment of material and human resources at strategic points. At the same time, the presence of personnel in these areas has been increased in anticipation of carrying out the appropriate assistance actions.
To the services canceled by Renfe, those of the French company Ouigo have been added, which estimates that they will affect 50% of the scheduled services on operational trains that depart and arrive from Madrid, Valencia, Alicante, Elche, Murcia, Cuenca, Valladolid , Albacete and Segovia, as they are all operated to and from Chamartín, as well as delays and schedule changes in the operating trains. The low-cost operator has made it clear that the programming change is due to an incident “completely unrelated” to its company.
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