Relatives await identification of the dead amid mourning
6 Oct 30 11:34 AM · 9d ago · 18 articles · 2 videos · 4 posts · 4 comments · 7 sources · development 6 of 8
On a second day of national mourning, families continued searching for missing loved ones, with some posting appeals on social media describing clothing or features of relatives who boarded the trains.
Óscar Puente Spanish Transport MinisterRenfe State-operated rail companyIryo Private rail operatorMarisa Liebana Relative of a victim
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first by Yahoo, 9d ago · also France 24 EN
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- Spain working to identify train crash dead as relatives' anguish grows France 24 EN · 9d ago
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In spain the procedure calls for driving by sight. There was a third train coming that stopped because the driver ignored the command to drive at normal speed and drove by sight.The real issue is that the LZB fails often enough (installed back in 1992 and due for a phased out in favor of a newer system last year with the contract awarded and no…
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Yeah, LZB was asked in 2021 to be updated to ERTMS by the EU and Spain got a 780 million euro handout from EU funds to do so with February 2026 as the deadline. At the start of this month the CEOS of Iryo and Ouigo testified in the senate that the LZB system was old and failing constantly leaving trains stranded regularly, and it needed an update…
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The BBC keeps repeating this inaccuracy and at this stage I wonder if it's deliberate:> The driver replies, "At normal speed?" To which the controller says: "Yes."That is not how the conversation went. The driver reads back the order from the controller, saying "at normal speed? Hm okay agreed" then the controller starts wrapping up the…
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