The incident has forced the line to be cut and has affected five trains on the route between Zaragoza and Madrid
An outbreak of fire has forced 89 passengers to evict this Saturday from a train at the station in the Zaragoza town of The tape, due to the intense smoke that was inside the convoy. For that reason, the line between Miraflores and Booths It has been cut off for over an hour. Likewise, up to five trains have been affected, including the one that has been evicted that covers the route between Zaragoza and Madrid-Chamartn.
The fire has been put out thanks to the quick intervention of the engineer. The passengers of the affected convoy continued their journey aboard another medium-distance regional train provided by Renfe.
According to Renfe and Adif sources, the incident occurred at 9:15 a.m., and until 10:20 a.m. circulation was interrupted throughout the axis that crosses Zaragoza and that connects, in addition to Miraflores and Casetas, with the Goya, El Portillo and Delicias intermodal stations, in the Aragonese capital.
Circulation has recovered an hour later but “with speed limitations”, according to the railway operator, so it may affect all trains that cross the so-called Goya tunnel throughout this Saturday in possible delays.
This incident has taken place when the controversy over the fire in the Castellón town of Bay.
The flames caused a medium-distance train, the one on the Valencia-Teruel-Zaragoza line, to end up stopped on the track and going back to the Caudiel station with 20 people injured, some from Aragon. Due to the panic, about thirty of the travelers jumped out of the car fleeing from the flames that were surrounding the convoy at the time.
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