US EditionRail Disaster in Spain: Our Reconstruction of the Tragedy that Cost the Lives of 46 People
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On 18 January, two high-speed trains collided with the town of Adamuz in the province of Cordoba. A defective rail would be the cause of the terrible accident.
The train accident of Adamuz (Córdoba) has come to light on numerous occasions during the session of the commission of inquiry on another recent tragedy: the dana of Valencia. This Monday, Alberto Núñez Feijóo appears in Congress to explain in parliamentary headquarters the conversations that he had with the then president, Carlos Mazón, during the day of December 29, 2024. But in the lower House, during his intervention, the PP leader has diver…
The accident puts the tourist sector on guard and threatens the expansion of the operators, after two years of record of passengers in the high railway speed
The Adamuz accident has opened up some uncomfortable rail debates. The first, about the safety of the track itself (Are the controls that are made on the roads sufficient?
Competition estimates that, between 2020 and 2024 alone, the three operators totaled more than 1.2 billion euros in lossesThe sharp increase in expenditure for the maintenance of the high-speed network goes behind the passenger boom The tragic train accident of Adamuz (Cordoba) is going to settle, from an economic point of view, with a new step backwards for the companies focused on high speed.Not only in the case of the two companies involved i…
The Spanish Tourism Bureau has sent a formal request to the railway operators to apply a provisional reduction of tariffs on high-speed services until the network recovers normality. The employer maintains that due to the safety restrictions introduced after the Adamuz accident, travellers are paying the full price for a service that, in practice, is not provided with the usual standards.
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