Suspended lines C1, C3, C4 and C8 of Cercanías Madrid by driver strike: "Te armas de patiencia"
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Community strengthens metro and urban and interurban bus services
A report from the CIAF warned that a mere visual check in certain situations is "likely to fail"
Spain aims to maintain the railway network less than other European countries, according to data from the European Commission and road engineers
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
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
The video recorded by the Civil Guard shows the carriages and the deployment of emergencies in Urda
The Spanish Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, stated on October 28 that the fatal railway accident occurred after a high-speed train from Renfe received permission to resume the march despite a red signal indicating that it should stop, due to the presence of another convoy immobilized on the tracks. According to the minister, this decision is in violation of the security protocol.
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.
At least 30 people have died in the clash of an AVE and an Iryo at the height of Urda station
Several passengers of the AVE with destination Sevilla tell EL PAIS how the collision with the Iryo train has been
The Civil Guard disseminates a video recorded from a helicopter showing the deployment of emergency services
The Renfe train hit an Iryo standing on the road about 130 kilometers from Madrid
Several videos show the scenes following the accident that took place on Wednesday in the high-speed line that links Madrid with Andalusia
The collision has left at least 64 dead among the 544 passengers travelling in the convoys of Iryo and Renfe
After the computer system failed, according to Puente, an operator ordered the AVE to follow "normal" even though the Iryo had warned him that he was in detention and saw on his screen that they were on their way to a crash.
The employer of construction and dealership calls for the introduction of a road pricing model to preserve the motorways
The order being disputed Hitachi and Siemens will be tried to award at the end of the month council despite pressure against the PP in Congress, while the creation of a bus transport subsidiary will be relaunched
The drivers return to circulation after the Wednesday plant, although they are still being cut on several lines due to the damage of the temporal
The Semaf union causes the immense chaos in the short distance trains of Catalonia after demanding new safety tests after the temporary
The SMAF union's demands for more train reviews delay service. Adif, for his part, has already delivered almost all the infrastructure