There is a red and yellow wave in the halls of Adocha’s Madrid station. In particular, for all the blankets that distributed the Red Cross Teams and the Emergency Army Division (UME) at dawn Passengers who are nowhere to spend the night after the trains are canceled Behind him This Monday is a massive blackout with no electricity. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the future of thousands of passengers gathered in the halls of the station is still uncertain. “We don’t know anything, we’re trapped here,” Eva explains 20 Minutos. He spent the night in an Atocha room with his two seven daughters, and still They do not reach new tickets to return To Barcelona. “We don’t sleep at all. We have come up with blankets, sandwiches and broth at three o’clock in the morning, but we have no drums or wifi.
The situation described Eva was lying on the ground all night again in hundreds of custom families, tourists and passengers, In some cardboard, others directly in the lobby’s lobby. Between the coffee, suitcases and the red eyes of fatigue, a more advanced camp is more than a railway station. “It seemed to be a shelter at night”, Ruben summarizes that he arrived at Adocha at three o’clock in the afternoon of blackout with his friend Alexandro, and he got on a train to Barcelona after two hours. They didn’t get it. “At a thirty o’clock they allowed them to enter the station to make the night. We were completely sleeping. It was mad,” he explains. Now, the two youths were able to buy a planned train at 11.30 am to return to the Catalan capital, but they did not even know if they could leave.
Today the train is “a lottery”. According to a worker Adif From Adocha’s high -speed lobby to this newspaper, it is not known whether the planned people will leave this day or not. “So only five high -speed trains from Renfe and three trains from IRO They all go with one and a half hours of late ”He says. Travelers’ ads are becoming a megaphon, although some of them have already canceled their postal trips. “We invite the train to the train on a departure order. The next half hour the unplanned people have to wait outside. We will call them,” says another railway company. At the same time, when they ask for passengers who can meet in front of access control, they are trying to find out if they can achieve their goal.
Rows in front of railway companies counters kilometersMany passengers were unable to get tickets these days. One of them is Liliana and John does not know when he can resume his journey after spending the night on the soil of Atocha Lobby. “They have told us that they are giving us tickets tomorrow, so we are waiting for another day. We’re going to try to get a hotel,” the woman says. At night they received blankets, water and some foods, but “nothing” free him ” Then uncertainty of what will come. “We don’t get rid of it. Care for the job. I have to go to my destiny to work. They gave me a day’s edge. Now I don’t know when I will come,” he said.
But if the victims are underlined, the unity of the people. “People from Madrid came to offer us their homes, food and water”Miguel, her husband and her two daughters are waiting with the age of 12 and nine years old, leaving Barcelona out of his second train to Barcelona. “We did the night here. The girls took him well. Even though it was very cold. It was in the early hours of the morning. It was complicated, but people in the area were incredibly.” They were able to buy new tickets to thank the Wi -Fi supplied at the nearby snack. “If this did not change them, I don’t know what we would have done. Now, let’s see if we can go on this train, “he added.
Open lath to nearby and medium distance
For its part, network Environment He has not yet restored the default. Laths, which gives access to the Atacha tracks, gets from equal to the open passengers, which indicates that it is temporarily out of service with a light signal. As one of the Renfe workers confirm this newspaper, Madrid Service runs in 50%But C5 is only between humans and Adocha. Miriam, near the C10 waiting for Prince Pius-Posloo, explains. “It shows that everything is still in the process of recovering and there are still failures. I am waiting for 20 minutes for my train,” he says.
As Renf announced in a statement early this morning, the affected passengers They may claim a change without the size or cost of the ticket. They have also pointed out to the harmful passengers who can travel to stations from the railway company. During this time, Santander, Hulwa, Badajos, Kalis, Khalisia, Asturiaz, Salamanka and Locrono will join Madrid “up to the new announcement” train services.
