The High Speed Railway Network Manager, ADIFIt took nine hours in activating and displacing the team in charge of repair a broken catenary which aggravated the difficult situation of the Madrid-Andalusia line during last Sunday and Monday, affected by a copper robbery that knocked down its security system from 18 hours. Once in the place of the events, the operators – belonging to a subcontract – resolved in just an hour The problem that has now faced Iro, Renfe and the Minister of Transportation, Oscar Puente.
This is stated in an internal Adif report, to which it has had access elEconomista.eswhere the Subdirectorate of Services and Maintenance recognizes that at 9:55 p.m. on Sunday, May 4, one was notified “Electrification breakdown“Because of the lack of tension in the catenary on both roads in the section between the town of Yeles and the maintenance base of The festivalin the province of Toledo.
However, It was not until 06:55 on Monday 5, nine hours laterwhen the call “Electrification wag“(The maintenance vehicle in charge of fixing this type of incidents in the catenary) reached the point of the breakdown, according to the aforementioned report.
High speed trains usually take less than half an hour to reach this point from Madrid to their usual speeds, although road maintenance vehicles usually have their maximum speed at 80 km/h, or even less.
Arranged in less than an hour
His necessary action to reestablish infrastructure forced take all the outputs of the first trains of the day being both busy roads, one by the affected train and another by the wagon.
The incidence was communicated by Iro to the rail manager when verifying that The train had no tension After being thrown at that point, an aspect that has given rise to a crossing of accusations between the company and the Minister of Transportation, Óscar Puente.
The rail manager, Adif, recognizes in his report that this problem He overlapped with the previous problem that that layout already suffered, After several copper pieces belonging to the LZB signaling system that supervises and controls the traffic of trains were stolen at 18 hours.
-At 07:50 hours, the catenary was repaired and the tension was restored on both tracks, the transfer of the Iryo train being pending. Once the Via 1 was released, the circulation was allowed for all trains with toledo origin or destination with limitations, as Renfe said, having to circulate in a single way in that section.
After Iro’s composition was separated in the sagra, Adif proceeded to restore circulation through both roads, although then they continued delayed a total of 33 trainsas the communications launched from the Ministry of Transportation in the early hours of Monday pointed out.
Crossing accusations between Puente and Iryo
The versions about the Origin of a later fault in the electrical system They have unleashed a public confrontation between Iryo, Renfe and the Ministry of Transport. According to Minister Óscar Puente, and the president of the Spanish public operator, Álvaro Fernández Heredia, the fall of a stretch of catenary was due to an alleged “hook” of an Iryo train when resuming the march after the technical stop.
This hypothesis, based on a Adif reportsuggests that the convoy pantographer could have caused cable breakage by retaking the contact. Consequently, the combination of the breakdown and sabotage caused a “multiplier effect” that aggravated the collapse.
Iryo, meanwhile, denies all responsibility. The ItsoSpañola operator has submitted a technical report prepared with Hitachi, responsible for the maintenance of their trains, which concludes that the pantograph and other components They were in perfect condition.
In addition, he maintains that the train was already detained for 13 minutes when the loss of tension occurred and that the stretch of catenary that fell did several meters ahead of the pantograph, which would prove that It was not the cause of damage.
Bridge has accused Iro of “avoid his responsibilities” for the possible economic repercussions. The company claims to have graphic material and technical records that support its story and open to collaborate with Adif in the investigation.
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