The train stations of the routes between Madrid and Andalusia are a chaos since early Monday morning. The reason, the sabotage that the road has suffered, with cable robberies for a very small value in four points of a 10 -kilometer radius in the province of Toledo.
And that, since the afternoon of Sunday and this next Monday has generated a huge chaos, which adds to the one suffered by the passengers a week ago, in the great blackout.
Manuel, from Morón de la Frontera, has made ‘double’. This Monday, at the Santa Justa station, he contemplated while chatting with Lavozdeelsur.es how his train was updated at the time of departure. It is the 10.20 hours, originally. But if the interview was scheduled for 12.00, at the end of it it will be for 12.30. “Oh…”.
The big blackout caught him “on the same train.” On that occasion, when he crossed near a town, Yeles, in the aforementioned Toledo. It was a less fourth when they were standing, without knowing why, as nobody knew in Spain then. “We spent five hours there, the doors opened to ventilate, but we couldn’t get off because the avocado was very height.”
In the end, the City Council mobilized and around six in the afternoon they put buses and helped them go down. They put a sports center. Water had, no food. A group went to the road and began to make autoestop, as in the movies. “We arrived in Madrid, although 12 or 13 kilometers from the hotel.”
Manuel travels for work. He is a teacher, and usually leaves Monday to return on Thursdays or Fridays, depending. It is like this since January. When he left home, in Morón, he already knew that he was waiting for him. “Today I hope at least eat, I didn’t do it a week.”
He understands that both issues escape the usual, which are two extraordinary situations, but their trust right now towards Renfe “is low, I understand that they are things that can happen, but I think some mechanism should be established not to harm so much.” In their work they are understanding and hopes not to have to do overtime to recover them.
A traveler with more margin
Néstor, on the other hand, also in Santa Justa, has the same train, but his journey is punctual, a trip that had to do Madrid. “No one has come to explain anything, nor I have gone to ask. When I have arrived, I have seen many people, but the first in the morning have already begun to leave.”
At the moment, notice the delay but the thing is somewhat calmer at about 11.30. It will have to wait. “But I can organize well.” It does not arrive, in principle, late at any appointment, or to take a flight … You will lose hours, you will need patience, because it seems that the service will not be reset 100% until the night arrives.
The reason is that, no matter how much you want, when the service is launched, you must first wait for the first trip and the first trains of the morning that were planned. Something similar to what happened on the back of the blackout. Two similar Mondays, for different reasons, in Santa Justa.
