Spanish high -speed rail network: passengers were left trapped in trains all night

Spain’s high -speed trains stayed on Sunday night due to theft of bronze cables, with some passengers being trapped in trains overnight and thousands excluded at stations. Thieves removed cables in four areas within a 10 -kilometer radius, with Transport Minister Oscar Patend talking about “serious sabotage”. “The rail connections to the lines affected, suspended in the evening and have not yet been restored, and this morning only a few trains departed from Madrid for Toledo, 70 kilometers south, and the routes to cities such as Sevilla and Malaga,” Thousands of people were forced to wait at Atotsa Station, Madrid. Hundreds of passengers were trapped in trains last week during the blackout that happened in the country. Nine trains were immobilized between stations, with several passengers forced to spend the night in them, according to interviews […]
Source: News Beast

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