The cancellation of the high-speed train service between Valencia and Madrid continues (no convoy could leave this Sunday) and there are already more than 9,000 Renfe, Iryo and Ouigo passengers affected who have had to be relocated by other means such as shuttle trains or conventional track trains to other stations or buses. However, there are still hundreds of people waiting for their trains to depart.
“Virtually all customers have or have had an alternative to get around,” explained the Minister of Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, on her social networks.
All of this, in the middle of the electoral day of 23-J, which has raised a lot of political dust on the part of the PP -both Valencian and Madrid- that has demanded from early morning a solution to guarantee the right to vote for all those affected.
As this newspaper has explained, the service is suspended after a fire broke out last morning in one of the access tunnels to the Joaquín Sorolla de València station, which affected the pumping well and ended up flooding the tracks. The entrance and exit to the Valencian station has been rendered useless.
In a statement, Adif explained that it is working with an auxiliary pump that already evacuates water from the San Isidro tunnel, flooded this morning as a result of a fire in a chest, which has affected the tunnel’s water pumps. A team made up of more than 50 people is involved in this operation, the same sources explain.
According to the latest data, the incident has already affected more than 5,000 Renfe passengers -who have relocated to other means of transport-, more than 4,000 Ouigo passengers and a figure to be determined from Iryo.
