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Power Cable Snarl Leaves Madrid-Andalusia High-Speed Trains at a Standstill
- A power cable malfunction near Yeles and La Sagra on July 1, 2025, stopped high-speed trains between Madrid and Andalusia, stranding over 15,000 passengers overnight.
- The outage came after several delays in service recovery by ADIF and a previous copper cable theft in early May that had disrupted the affected route for more than twelve hours.
- ADIF requested regional emergency services to aid stranded passengers amid a heatwave, while Renfe announced gradual restoration of services with warnings of potential delays due to ongoing repairs.
- Over 20 trains were blocked or cancelled, many passengers lacked food or drink, and political figures, including Madrid's president, criticized government responses to the incident.
- The incident exposed the physical vulnerabilities of Spain’s digital train infrastructure and highlighted insufficient contingency plans despite rapid digital dependency growth.
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15,000 train passengers stranded by Madrid-Andalusia outage
Late Monday night, over 15,000 train passengers were stranded for over 14 hours due to an outage affecting the Madrid, Toledo, and Andalusia railway route. The issue itself occurred between Yeles and La Sagra due to an electricity outage. The malfunction required Adif train operator engineers to work all night and well into Tuesday morning to repair, Telecinco reported. The train outage caused… Source
More than three hundred travelers have spent the night trapped in the train that covered the route between Madrid and Malaga , at the height of Villaseca de la Sagra (Toledo), due to the breakdown in the catenary. Passengers did not have water, food, light or air conditioning aggravated by the high temperatures that they live in the Peninsula at this time and still do not know when they will be able to resume the trip to Malaga station after mor…
Power cable failure strands high-speed trains between Spain’s Madrid and Andalusia amid heatwave
MADRID, July 1 — Passengers were left stranded in train carriages and stations overnight into Tuesday morning after a power cable failure cut high-speed lines between Madrid and Andalusia. Around 20 trains were blocked on the tracks or unable to depart on Monday evening, with approximately 10 more cancelled on Tuesday morning in Madrid and southern Spanish cities including Seville, where global leaders are attending a United Nations conference o…
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Hindustan TimesHigh-speed train line to Spain's Andalusia cut after power cable failure
MADRID - Passengers were left stranded in train carriages and stations overnight into Tuesday morning after a power cable failure cut high-speed lines between Madrid and Andalusia. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Power Cable Snarl Leaves Madrid-Andalusia High-Speed Trains at a Standstill
Power Cable Snarl Leaves Madrid-Andalusia High-Speed Trains at a Standstill A power cable malfunction led to the suspension of high-speed train services connecting Madrid to Andalusia, leaving passengers stranded overnight. Over 20 trains were affected, either stuck on the tracks or unable to depart, with additional cancellations announced the following morning in Madrid and southern cities such as Seville, where a United Nations conference on d…
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