AGAIN? Holy crap, if this wasn’t sabotage then heads need to roll in that ministry
It was a private train, not Renfe.
True, but it looks like it may have been a railway issue on that (recently renovated) sector.
Even then, why the ministry and not the infrastructure company?
Looks like it’s not the first derailment of the Frecciarossa 1000.
On 6 February 2020, unit number 21 was involved in a high-speed derailment at Livraga (Lodi), on the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, operating the first service of the day. It caused the death of the two train drivers and the injury of 31 people.
And this only a little time after entering private companies in the business in Spain.
Similar story in greece
I wouldn’t say 5 years is a little time…
For rail, 5 years is little.
Iryo has been operating that line only since December 2024.
The tail end of an evening train between Malaga and Madrid with some 300 passengers came off the rails near Córdoba at 7:45 p.m. local time and jumped onto the track in the opposite direction and slammed into a train with some 200 passengers coming from Madrid to Huelva, killing at least people 21 and injuring dozens more
oh wow that’s a serious crash. At first it sounded like a case of a train going too fast at a corner but apparently not:
Spain’s Transport Minister Óscar Puente said the causes of the crash were unknown. He called it “a truly strange” incident because it happened on a flat stretch of track that had been renovated in May. He also said the train that jumped the track was less than four years old.
Article doesn’t mention how fast the trains were going but they can go at up to 300 km/h, depending on the track, and this being a straight section of a route to Madrid, 200 km/h would seem a conservative estimate. It also doesn’t say if both trains were high speed - but in any case a head-on collision between 2 trains at these kinds of speeds is going to be catastrophic.
Yeesh… Talk about a never event
Russian sabotage?
