One train from R3 has strayed from its route at the station Montcada-Ripollet (Vallès Occidental, Barcelona) and interrupts circulation in Suburbs since nine in the morning. As reported Renfe, the car has not derailed but has shifted off its axis in the change of track. Technically it is called “talon“: when the machine had to go one way, in the change of needles, it has gone another.
The 150 people who were traveling on the train have had to be evacuated walking down the tracks about 100 meters, until returning to the station.
At the time of the altercation there was a thick fog at the station and services emergency They have accompanied those affected until they reach the platform. The General Directorate of Civil Protection has activated the pre-alert for the railway emergency plan (Ferrocat), which has been activated for almost two hours:
Pre-alert #FERROCAT
Circulation @rod3cat interrupted by an incident on a train #ProteccioCivil https://t.co/BFSlvPNXbZ
– Civil protection (@emergenciescat) December 14, 2021
Everything indicates that the accident, which is being investigated, would have been produced by a machinist human error by not attending the traffic light of the infrastructure. Being the moment when the train left the station in the direction of Barcelona, it was going at low speed.
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The infrastructure manager technicians (Adif) and the railway company have traveled to the scene to verify the state of the road, but at the moment it is unknown how long the service will be cut off, which affects the section between L’Hospitalet Y Mollet Santa Rosa.
They have enabled a alternative transport by road in the section that coincides with the R2 line. Users have a bus which transports them between Granollers center and the Franqueses del Vallès.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com