A loss in the tension of the roads has left hundreds of high Aellocity trains that are on the Chamartín station. Most were divided into the square that precedes the entrance, because access to the interior has been blocked.
The atmosphere was much more tense than the one who was lived in the same place just over a month ago during the big blackout who left the whole of Spain without light. People were shown more nervous and with more concernWithout understanding everything that happens.
Like that day, A station of the station communicates with a megaphone what happened: “A breakdown in a train caused the fall in the voltage, we just have to wait to restore it.” When the message ends, the voices of the affected by complaints rise.
Hours Posters during voltage cut at high speed trains in Chamartín.
The Renfe employees were not visible in the area, but Samur operations and civil protection that moved to the station. The lights of their vehicles added a new layer of voltage to the place. Other operators move water drums in the station.
A couple who went to San Sebastián is now trying to search Bus tickets to travel on ThursdayAlthough without success. “If they told us if this is going for a long time, we can think what else to do.”
Déjà vu van Pech
Just arrived at the station, a passenger described the situation as “collective panic” when seeing the stamp that is formed for him at the access door. Something that contrasted with the help to find transport alternatives that some passengers explained to others.
There were people who even lived a Dejà Vu. A passenger to Pontevedra arrived “loaded with bad luck”: “I had the blackout, now this, another day for an incidence that I arrived three in the morning.” Wait now For the lottery management of the stationHoping to be more lucky with your purchase.
Others have just landed from Japan and now they have to return to Valencia. They trust that on that Before the departure time of your train, the 16:45, the situation is “improved”. Otherwise they will look for ‘an alternative to this surprise’.
Given the ignorance of when they can board their train, people pressed themselves in the nearby bars in the hope of receiving a kind of reaction about what happened. Despite the heat, the hiding place offered by the housing was sufficient to no longer suffer on almost June almost summer.
