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High speed train crash in Spain

There was a high speed train crash in Spain again on the line Madrid to Andalucía (Sevilla) line. An AI summary: “At least 30 people have been killed after two high-speed trains collided on the Madrid-Seville rail line near Urda in Toledo province. Rescue operations are active, and the high-speed line has been suspended.”

“A Renfe AVE train struck the back of an Iryo train that had reportedly stopped.
The collision happened at kilometer marker 118 near the towns of Urda, Mora, and Orgaz in Spain’s central Castilla-La Mancha region.
The national railway infrastructure manager, Adif, announced the immediate suspension of all high-speed rail traffic along the crucial Madrid-Andalusia corridor.”

For anybody in, or traveling to Spain, this could affect you plans if you planned on traveling by train along that route.

Posted by
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We were supposed to be on this RENFE train tomorrow morning. Such a horrible and tragic accident.
For those who may be in a similar situation as us, cancelling our RENFE tickets was easy and quick on the RENFE website.

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We were on the Ave train on the same route (planning on changing trains in Antequera Santa Ana to get to Granada) about 30 min behind the accident. We came to a complete stop for about 40 min before they announced that we were being turned back around to Atocha. The employees were visibly very upset, but trying their best to maintain some order. So horrible. We were able to find an Alsa bus to Grenada for this evening, we’ll get there late but at least we won’t miss out on our Alhambra tickets.

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414 posts

This is the kind of accident that should simply not happen in the modern day, especially given that there was another mass-casualty accident on the same route in January this year.

Posted by
13513 posts

It's so sad. The death toll is up to 68 at this time. I feel so bad for all of those people. What a horrible thing to happen.

Posted by
1987 posts

Truly horrific.

The train route from Madrid to cities in Andalucia is now closed, with no plans for restoration.

Posted by
6535 posts

My train Granada to Cordoba today was cancelled, as well (of course) our train Seville to Madrid Sunday. Today was easily solved by a bus, Sunday a flight. Small things in view of the huge catastrophe.