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The Iryo de Urda train went through a thorough review two days before the accident.
Hitachi Rail staff supervised the signage team at Renfe workshops in Madrid
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Spain demands answers as train disaster toll rises
Spain began demanding answers on Thursday after the toll from the country's second high-speed train collision this year rose to 69 people, with scores injured and distraught relatives desperately seeking news about their loved ones. One of Europe's deadliest rail disasters this century struck south of Madrid on Wednesday morning when a service by state operator Renfe ploughed into the back of a stationary train belonging to private Spanish company Iryo. FRANCE 24's Sarah Morris reports from Madrid, Spain.
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The untied ends of Urda's sinister in judicial and technical investigations
The investigations focus on the inrelated orders from the control centre of Adif to the AVE and Iryo in distress, for the resumption of the march with the LZB security system fallen and with 35 years in operation, and the latter's inability to start before the collision
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I was traveling on that train.
Antonio Jiménez Barca, a journalist at EL PAIS, was at the AVE cafeteria at the time he hit the Iryo. Relates the first moments of chaos
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Pablo Oromí: 'Spanish railway transport is one of the safest; accidents are isolated'
In just nine months, Spain has recorded two major rail accidents in the high-speed network (AVE). The first occurred on January 18, 2026, when an Iryo train was derailed on the Málaga-Madrid road by a break in the infrastructure and invaded another lane, where it collided with an Alvia de Renfe train. On October 28, a high-speed train hit another convoy at the height of Urda (Toledo) station, south of Madrid. Both accidents reopened the debate on the safety of the Spanish rail system. We discussed the subject with Pablo Oromí, ingen
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The cranes arrive at the site of the Urda train accident to begin the rescue work: "The priority is to locate the trapped vicitmas"
The railway traffic on the morning of this Wednesday, which has left at least 68 dead and 77 injured, has required heavy machinery to lift the two cars of the Iryo that have derailed after suffering an attack of an Ave when they covered the route Madrid- Sevilla
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The Atocha controller, to the AVE driver: "Disconnect and reconnect. Resume with normal gear"
The audios show the error of the Atocha manager. The Iryo driver warned five minutes from the tragedy that he was in detention and could not start the train. And no one stopped the AVE
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The train accident in Toledo, recorded in view of drone: images that were not seen on foot
The video recorded by the Civil Guard shows the carriages and the deployment of emergencies in Urda
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This is the view of the area of the railway accident in Urda, where at least 68 people are already dead.
A team of EL PAIS moves to Toledo, where the clash between two trains as the rescue work and the search for victims between the remains of the convoys continue
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Survivors of the Iryo and AVE rebuild the accident: "You spend your life in a second without realizing"
The noise of the clash between the wagons remains in the memory of those who left alive and now try to order the scattered memories of the impact, the evacuation, the help of the neighbors or the distressing search of their loved ones
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The Civil Guard questions the operator of the control centre that authorized the AVE to follow the route, even though the Iryo remained standing.
The officers also demonstrate to the rest of the staff at the Adif checkpoint at the time of the accident.
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Bridge calls the control centre "inexplicable" to allow the AVE to resume the march normally when the Iryo was still standing.
A driver not involved in the accident warned that the trains could not return to normal after the safety failure
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Spain: new railway disaster leaves at least 68 dead and 108 injured
The president of Castilla- La Mancha, Emiliano García- Page, raised the provisional balance of deaths in the railway accident to 68 Wednesday, 24 on the AVE train and 44 on the convoy of Iryo. In addition, 53 people received hospital care, 15 of them with serious injuries, while emergency teams plan to mobilize canine units to find potential survivors among the rubble.
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The first images of the railway accident between two high-speed trains in Toledo
According to government sources, the accident "could be worse than Adamuz"
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The rescue tasks following the train accident in Toledo, live
At least 30 people have died in the clash of an AVE and an Iryo at the height of Urda station
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"I got shot at the bags. Everything is destroyed": the survivors of the Toledo accident speak
Several passengers of the AVE with destination Sevilla tell EL PAIS how the collision with the Iryo train has been
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Several cars derailed: aerial images of the train accident in Toledo
The Civil Guard disseminates a video recorded from a helicopter showing the deployment of emergency services
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Chronicle of an EL PAIS journalist who was travelling within the AVE: "We have been fired"
The reporter, victim of the accident, reports the first moments of chaos after the railway crash in Toledo
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Caves of the accident in Toledo - 124; what is known until the time of the train crash?
The collision has left at least 64 dead among the 544 passengers travelling in the convoys of Iryo and Renfe
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The accident of two high-speed trains in Toledo, in images
An AVE train has collided with an Iryo convoy that was detained on the road, according to sources of emergency service 112, which have indicated that several wagons have fallen through a terraced