The Ministry of Transportation and Sustainable Mobility has denounced a “act of serious sabotage” in the high speed Madrid-Seville with four cable robberies at different points within a radius of 10 kilometers and that affects the line security systems of the line. Among other points these robberies have occurred in the Toledo towns of Manzaneque and Los Yébenes, although he has known eldiario.es Castilla-La Mancha Incidents have been reported in Yeles (Toledo) and Malagón (Ciudad Real).
From Renfe and Adif it is also being informed that cable theft has occurred in railway infrastructure between Mora and Urda (Toledo), which is causing delays and arrests of circulation in high -speed trains and long and medium distance.
Citizen collaboration is requested
“The involvement of the trains that are still going to circulate will be very serious,” said Minister Oscar Puente through the Social Network X. The Civil Guard already investigates the facts.
Transportation is asking for the citizen collaboration of who can “offer information” since the facts, insists, “are very serious.”
The president of Renfe Álvaro Heredia has also explained, also via social networks, that there are 6,300 people in 18 trains that are being affected in this line. It is being distributed food and drink and reinforce the stations staff.
Renfe reported shortly before 23 hours that the affected trains were the Avant Puertollano Madrid with a delay of 181 ‘minutes as well as two Ave Madrid-Sevilla and vice versa with delays of more than 100 minutes.
The relationship of trains affected by cable theft was also offered. An Alvia Algeciras- Madrid, a Madrid-Granada Av, an Avant Madrid-Puertollano, an Avlo Sevilla-Madrid and a Malaga-Madrid Ave.
As Eldiario.es has learned, one of the trains stopped in the province of Toledo has been delayed for more than three hours. When he stopped, they communicated to the travelers that was due to a cable cut and then it was for a breakdown of another train. “They told us that it was indeterminate,” explains one of the passengers of the vehicle. “We couldn’t leave, people are nervous.” This train has been able to reach the destination station, in Madrid.
