One dead, 37 injured, as commuter train hits collapsed wall near Barcelona
A Rodalies commuter train derailed near Barcelona on Tuesday night after it ploughed into the rubble of a retaining wall that had collapsed onto the...
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Death toll rises to 43 as royals visit train crash site and Spain starts three days of mourning
Spain began three days of national mourning on Tuesday for the victims of the high-speed train crash that occurred in Adamuz, southern Spain, on Sunday...
Train crash probe points to possible damaged track, amid uncertainty over cause or consequence
Investigators examining Sunday’s derailment of a high-speed train in Spain, which has now claimed at least 40 lives, have identified a damaged joint in the...
Sánchez vows ‘to get to the truth’ about cause of train tragedy, as Spain declares three days of mourning
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez pledged on Monday to ‘get to the truth’ about the cause of the railway accident in the Andalusian town of...
RENFE president: human error ‘practically ruled out’ as cause of high-speed train collision in Andalusia
Álvaro Fernández Heredia, the president of RENFE – Spain’s national state-owned railway company – has ruled out human error as the cause of Sunday’s railway...
Renfe withdraws low-cost Avlo trains from Barcelona-Madrid line, replaces it with AVE
Renfe, Spain’s national rail operator, has confirmed that it will remove all Avlo trains from the high-speed Barcelona–Madrid corridor. The budget service, launched under the...
New high-speed train linking Madrid & Lisbon will cut journey time from 10 hours to three
A new high-speed rail link between Madrid and Lisbon is set to become operational by 2030, coinciding with the year Spain and Portugal are scheduled...
Rail strikes planned during March-April in Spain called off at last minute
A planned seven-day rail strike in Spain, set to begin on Monday 17 March, was called off at the last moment after unions representing workers...
Spanish government reaches deal with JxCat to approve transport subsidies & pension increases
Spain’s minority coalition government between the PSOE socialists and Sumar left-wing has reached a deal with the Catalan pro-independence party, Junts per Catalunya (JxCat), to...
Transport discounts and pension increases voted down in Spanish Congress
Spain’s fragile coalition government between the PSOE socialists and the Sumar left-wing umbrella group suffered a significant political setback on Wednesday, after the rejection of...
