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Spain rail crash came after train ordered to go in error: Minister

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Spain's transport minister stated that a recent rail collision which killed at least 64 people occurred after a train was wrongly ordered to proceed despite technical issues. The incident happened in Castilla-La Mancha on October 28 when an automatic control system failure halted all trains, but the control center erroneously allowed one Renfe-operated train to continue moving for 25km before colliding with a stationary Iryo train at high speeds of up to 200 km/h. Minister Oscar Puente criticized the lack of verification by the control center before resuming traffic, raising concerns about rail safety in Spain following another fatal collision earlier this year.

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As of November 2, 2026, 69 people died after two high-speed trains collided in Toledo province, central Spain, on October 27, 2026. The crash involved a Renfe train traveling from Madrid to Seville and an Iryo train heading in the opposite direction. Among the fatalities were 4 Americans, 1 Canadian, and one victim each from France, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, Portugal, Tunisia, and the Czech Republic; 54 of those killed were Spanish nationals. The collision caused two carriages to derail, prompting rescuers to search the site for days. Local officials asked the town hall in Urda to prepare a sports pavilion for injured passengers. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez pledged an investigation to restore trust in Spain’s rail system, which carried some 45 million travelers last year, including millions of tourists.

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Spain rail crash came after train ordered to go in error: Minister AI generated URDA, Spain - A rail collision in Spain that claimed at least 64 lives on Oct 28 came after a train was ordered to go in “error” despite a technical failure that halted all services, the transport minister said.

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🔮 A train operated by state company Renfe restarted and travelled 25km until it collided with a stationary train belonging to private Spanish company Iryo, at a speed that could have reached “up to 200 kilometres per hour”, Puente added.

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Spain rail crash came after train ordered to go in error: Minister · assertive framing

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minister → come → services

The first findings about the accident in the central region of Castilla-La Mancha are likely to revive questions about rail safety in Spain after another high-speed collision in January killed 46 people. asserted

collision → revive → people

Transport Minister Oscar Puente said 69km of track were affected by an outage of the automatic control system, which “caused all the trains that were running at that time to stop automatically”. asserted

that → say → time

“The decision to resume traffic, while that system had not been restored, belongs to the control centre, and the control centre... took the decision to resume traffic in circumstances that, from our point of view, are inexplicable,” Puente said. asserted

Puente → resume → view

A train operated by state company Renfe restarted and travelled 25km until it collided with a stationary train belonging to private Spanish company Iryo, at a speed that could have reached “up to 200 kilometres per hour”, Puente added. uncertain

Puente → operate → hour

“It is clear that, in the control centre, the decision was taken to restart, and then they had more than enough time to verify the error, and they did not fix it,” Puente said. asserted

Puente → take → it