The new episode of railway chaos that left a balance of 18,000 passengers affected throughout the weekend stirs up the staff of Adif and Talgo, who convey their helplessness in the face of the repeated incidents that have plagued the Spanish railway network for some time. The first to speak out after the event caused on Saturday by the derailment of a Renfe train of series 114 in the Atocha-Chamartín tunnel has been the Independent Trade Union and Civil Servants Central (CSIF), which attributes the event “to the lack of investment in infrastructure” by the Government in Renfe and Adif, “which translates every day into the inability of the stations to face any incident.” In a statement, the union defends that the stations and especially Madrid as a nucleus railway, “are not prepared to withstand the slightest setback with the volume of traffic that exists today.” It is a situation that they have been denouncing since the end of 2023, in what they say has become “the usual trend in the railway sector” due to which Renfe and Adif must live with thousands of incidents each year. “The key is to resolve them quickly and currently it is not possible,” they say. Something that they attribute to the fact that “the infrastructure cannot cope with the volume of traffic that exists” after the great growth that railway liberalization has brought due to the incorporation of new high-speed fleets, but also due to the introduction of more medium-distance trains. and suburban areas.Related News standard Yes Those trapped by the chaos explode against Renfe: “This is third world” Helena Cortés”CSIF constantly demands to expand the capacity of the stations and their surroundings so that there is enough space for the trains to park that they are not circulating and traffic at the stations is not interrupted. But the lack of investment is another of the pending issues of the public railway sector in our country,” they point out in a statement. Puente says that it does invest. A complaint that contrasts with what was expressed this Monday by the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, who has denied that there is a lack of investment in Spanish railway infrastructure. However, union sources insist to this newspaper that the staff suffers events of the caliber of last Saturday due to the lack of investment in the preventive and corrective maintenance of the facilities. “There is still a deficit in Adif and we need personnel in manufacturing and maintenance and in train engineering and maintenance to avoid the outsourcing of essential services for the conservation and proper functioning of the railway network and locomotives,” they say. “In the general directorate of human resources of Adif they are fed up with us because of our insistence and we have also transferred the need to the Ministry of Transport,” these same informants emphasize.
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