This is the situation of trains in Spain after the blackout

Lost trains in the middle of nowhere (No chance of rescue three of them still at night), all completely stopped nearby services and the large cities collapsed in traffic shot at the lack of mobility in the suburban.

The blackout that the April 28, 2025 In Spain he left us without trains and still, despite having recovered almost the entire electricity grid, the rail service continues to present some holes. This is what we know, what works, what does not work and how much we hope to return to normal.

Half -gas trains

With the generalized blackout yesterday, the Spanish rail system was completely stopped. To shelter travelers, the main Spanish train stations remained open at night although even this was not enough since Some people were out of them covered all capacity.

Cercanías services

With Renfe’s last update at eight in the morning, the situation is as follows.

Lines that work normally or partially:

• The Cercanías de Asturias and Cantabria lines work normally.
• Madrid Cercanías: 50% planned service in all lines and in the C5 recovered between Humanes and Atocha and the sections between Pinto and Aranjuez and Guadalajara-Alcalá de Henares, which will not circulate from the beginning.
• Valencia Cercanías: 100% planned service in C2 lines from Valencia to Xàtiva and C6, without tension in the C1 in the section between chair and gandía.

Suspended services:

• Rodalies in Catalonia
• The nearby Alicante, Zaragoza, Cádiz, Sevilla, Malaga, Bilbao and San Sebastián do not work.

Medium and long distance and high speed services

The following services do not work:

• Avant and Media Distance Services in Andalusia
• Medium distance and Alvia services in Extremadura
• High performance services of Ourense-Santiago de Compostela-Coruña and Vigo-Santiago de Compostela-Coruña.
• Avant service from Toledo
• Connections between Medina del Campo and Salamanca
• Metric width between Ferrol – Ortigueira and León – Guard.

The following high -speed and long distance lines are working since the beginning of the service:

• Madrid-Barcelona.
• Madrid-Valencia/Murcia/Alicante.
• Madrid-País Vasco.
• Madrid-algeciras.
• Malaga-Granada
• Madrid-Asturias
• Madrid-Santander
• Madrid-Córdoba
• Madrid-Seville

Lines that should recover normality throughout the day:

Lines without service and without forecast to recover them until new notice:

• Madrid-Huelva.
• Madrid-Badajoz.
• Madrid-Cádiz.
• Madrid-Galicia.
• Madrid-Salamanca.
• Madrid-Logroño.
• Barcelona-Aliante (Euromed).
• Basque-Barcelona country.

Renfe points out that affected travelers can request the return of the ticket or the change without cost in the Renfe sales channels. To make a trip, the passenger will be able to go to the stations and look for a way to comply with one of the available squares.

Metro services

As for the operation of trains in the Metro network of the big cities, the situation is as follows:

Private services

Iro has announced that has recovered normality in the services provided in the corridors of Madrid-Valencia and Madrid-Barcelona.

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