Milers d'afectats per la suspensió de l'alta velocitat entre Barcelona i Madrid per l'incendi en un tren

High speed train traffic between Barcelona and Madrid are currently suspended as a Renfe AVE train caught fire at 16:05 near Ricla, Zaragoza. The train left Madrid 14:27 with 283 passengers on board all of whom made it out okay.

Traffic cannot be be resumed until the overhead catenary, which supposedly caused the fire, is repaired and tested. Renfe claims nearly 5000 passengers across 14 AVE trains are affected. Iryo has seven trains that were affected and Ouigo, two.

Looking at the high speed departures reported by Adif, I can at the time of writing this, the 17:20 train to Madrid has not departed Barcelona - Sants. Getting help and information at stations, as always, seems to be cumbersome. elPeriodico has done some groundwork to capture a few passenger stories.