Ouigo excuses himself from the collapse in the bird and believes to know who is the culprit

They were “13 hours trapped in the middle of a plain”. And, since then, the Government, Ouigo and Adif are trapped in a major battle. Specifically, to find a culprit to the collapse of high Andalusian speed last week.

Thousands of affected travelers, many unknowns and only a safe thing: nobody wants to peeled.

“A Sinking”. “How to attribute responsibility in the sinking of a road to stuck cars, something frequent and habitual.” This is how Ouigo has described in a statement, collected by Europa Pressthe report derived from the collapse of the high speed that was lived on June 30 when hundreds of travelers from the Andalusian corridor their trains were stopped But, above all, when the passengers of one of those trains spent the night in the bird, No water and without being rescued.

That report has elaborated Adif And he points out that an Ouigo train was to blame for the collapse of the network. According to the infrastructure manager, the French company train “lost the check with the signal systems standing on the road.” That caused four other trains to stop, causing the dominated effect already conspired.

Adif points to Ouigo … The report, collected by The worldHe points out that the French train stop accumulated up to five trains in seven kilometers of tracks. The manager explains that the catenary tension is designed to feed a train in motion but not to keep five trains active at the same point.

In that case, there is a risk of over -overtime. When this happens, the train is disconnected from the catenary to avoid greater risks but causes a tension drop in the line. It is something like lowering the leads at home so that appliances do not shrink with a voltage rise.

The whole system is controlled by the pantograph. This manages the electricity between the train and the catenary and is the one that is supposed to be in the Avant de Renfe that remained in the middle of nowhere. That is, Adif points to Ouigo as the seed that ended up creating chaos.

… ouigo blames Adif … “This cannot be used as an alleged cause of the tension drop in the catenary. The infrastructure must normally contemplate this type of situations.” Ouigo said in the aforementioned statement to subsequently underpin the phrase with the previous metaphor.

The company emphasizes that Alstom’s MEPs, the trains with those operating in Spain, are one of the “most reliable and insurance models in Europe” while emphasizing that they will collaborate in any request for information that is requested from ADIF to clarify what happened.

… And the government puts the eye in ouigo. The mention of trains safety is not accidental. Last Wednesday (July 2), at a meeting between Addar and the PSOE, María Jesús Montero, Vice President of the Government and Minister of Finance, was hunted by an open microphone. There he could say that the maintenance of “the ouigos these” was not correct.

“We from Renfe remove them, which do not remove the trains from the tracks,” Montero was heard to tell various representatives of adding, in words collected by the media, among which is 20 minutes. “Apparently there is a problem too, well, of those operators, and I plan to raise it. I do not know if there is a certain sabotage, I cannot understand it, I am a user of that bird, it is my usual means of transport,” Montero insisted.

More investment with canons flying In addition to defending themselves, from Ouigo they have insisted to Adif on taking into account their demands of greater investment in the maintenance of the infrastructure. They point out that the situation lived last week is “unpublished and unacceptable”, in the words of Helene Valenzuela, CEO of the company in Spain, during the IV Mobility Forum organized by The economist.

They ensure that the projected image directly affects high speed and believes that The ADIF Plan It is not enough because “you cannot identify all the weak points of the network.” That is why they demand a greater investment at the time that the canons that the manager wants to apply to the operators for the use of the infrastructure.

Until now, Ouigo has pointed to the canons as the main reason why they are not profitable on their arrival in Spain. That absence of profitability has been denounced by the Government who even warned that would denounce Ouigo against Europe for unfair competition.

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