C1, C2, C3a, C7, C8 and C10. The list of lines affected by the umpteenth breakdown in the Madrid Cercanías service does not stop growing in a new complicated day for mobility at rush hour. If on Saturday it was an incident in Atocha that caused significant delays, the one this Wednesday took place in the Recoletos tunnel causing “prolonged detentions and long delays in both directions”.
The collapse has forced Adif to modify the usual routes and destinations of the convoys to the discomfort of the users although, a few minutes before 10:00 a.m., the incident has managed to be corrected: “The trains progressively recover their usual routes, but they circulate with accumulated delays and their destinations can be modified”, they have pointed out from Cercanías.
Many users have complained about the fragility of a service that has accumulated incidents in recent months. Especially after the start of the works on the Chamartín station. “One more day of breakdown in Cercanías Madrid, great management, half an hour stopped at the entrance to Atocha”, pointed out @AlbertMagu.
A situation ratified by @David_82C who was ironic at Adif’s message. “It could be any day of the week…”.
@mixelo509 summed up his indignation in a single sentence: Not a day without delays or incidents, today the traffic between Atocha and Chamartín is completely cut off”. And @Yulieth_lml regrets that “With Cercanías you will always be late for work”.
Laura Cereceda, for her part, recounts having suffered “almost half an hour late today from Los Negrales to Chamartín, we are still stopped in Pitis, there is also a noise problem in the first carriage that is leaving us deaf. Yesterday also almost half an hour late, really, it’s to cry”.
The breakdown on Wednesday occurred just four days after another incident at the Atocha station facilities that caused long delays and retentions on Cercanías trains passing through said station. Although a week earlier, on June 4, things got worse, but luckily there were no injuries to regret after a Cercanías train derailed at the exit of the Madrid Atocha station.
As Renfe sources have indicated to EFE, the incident was due to the fact that the convoy had a bogie (set of wheels) come off the track. And the travelers were transferred by intercom gangways to a train located in parallel.
