2023-10-14 10:10:53
Updated Saturday, October 14, 2023 – 10:10
This Friday, four incidents were recorded that prevented the circulation of trains of all operators
Hundreds of travelers gather in Chamartín after the incident. JC HidalgoEFEIncidence New chaos on the AVE: thousands of people affected by the suspension of traffic between Madrid and the Valencian Community in the middle of the bridge
Adif At 6:00 a.m. this Saturday, circulation on both roads was recovered. the High Speed Line (LAV) that connects Madrid and the Valencian Community and the Region of Murcia and Renfe has resumed circulation on the AVE and Avlo trains on that line at 6:30 a.m., affected yesterday by four incidents that prevented the circulation of trains from all operators for almost the entire day.
According to Adif and Renfe, traffic has been recovered after completing the repair work on an element of the electrical system, the catenary, in the vicinity of Monteagudo de las Salinas (Cuenca).
Yesterday’s incidents began at 8:20 a.m., at the Monteagudo facilities and continued at 8:47 a.m., with a lack of electrical voltage in the catenary between Monteagudo and Bifurcacin Albacete, which forced us to travel in a single direction on this route. Derived from this lack of tension, a train from the French operator Ouigo was stopped on the way.
At 11:56 a.m., a new incident affect the electrification system and caused the stoppage of a Renfe AVE train, which generated a total cutoff of circulation on the two tracks in the same section, Monteagudo-Bifurcacin Albacete, of the Madrid-Valencia/Alicante/Murcia High Speed line.
Since that moment, the specific causes of the different incidents are being analyzed, an investigation that has not been concluded and whose information will be submitted, both by Renfe and by Adif, to the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, which from the first moment He asked the public companies integrated into the Ministry (Adif and Renfe) for the maximum possible diligence.
More than 1,800 travelers affected
The concatenation of all these incidents caused the total suspension of circulation from that time. At that time, Renfe had nine trains in circulation, which were making various routes in both directions on the Valencia-Madrid, Madrid-Alicante, Santander-Alicante and Madrid-Murcia routes. The nine trains were occupied by a total of 1,824 passengers, who were detained along the way.
For all of them, Renfe offered a train and bus device which consisted of five buses, for travelers from the stopped AVE train, which were transferred by road to Cuenca, the same buses that later served to transport travelers by road from Cuenca to Valencia. In addition, three buses were made available to passengers that made several trips, as shuttles, between Albacete and Cuenca, to enable transfers between trains that were at both stations and to continue to their destination; two buses in Madrid, to take travelers to Valencia and Alicante.
These trains They could not travel from Madrid to their destination due to the breakdown on the line. For these travelers, these buses were available to continue the road trip from this city to their destinations; 25 taxis in Madrid, for travelers who got off in Madrid from those same trains and whose destination was cities near the capital, and medium-distance train services by conventional route, from Albacete to Madrid.
Renfe, in addition, made itself available to the French operator Ouigo, whose train had been stopped, with passengers on board, since 8:20 in the morning, to transfer its passengers, both to a Renfe relief train and to buses. Finally, Ouigo was able to assist his travelers on his own.
From 11:56 a.m., the moment of total suspension of circulation on the line, Renfe also contacted all passengers on the trains whose circulation was scheduled throughout the day to announce the incident and offer them the possibility of changes or cancellations of tickets without any cost.
Throughout the day, Renfe reinforced ground information personnel at the stations in Madrid, Cuenca, Albacete, Alicante and Valencia, with the aim of responding to all requests for help and transportation from the company’s customers.
At 10:00 p.m., Renfe was able to tow, with a train with diesel traction (since there was no electrical voltage on the section in question), the AVE train that was stopped in the middle of the track.
In this way, Renfe was able to make available to the Adif the road so that they could proceed to repair the damaged catenary (electrical lines). Following the work carried out by Adif, this morning traffic has resumed since the beginning of the service and Adif is analyzing the specific causes of the different incidents.
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