Atocha Control Center to AVE Driver: "Resume normal gear"

An employee of Adif's control center in Atocha asked the AVE 20280 train driver to "resume his march under the cover of the BSL (signal blockade on the sides), with normal gear", minutes before the Iryo 6087 train that was standing in Urda, Toledo, according to audios accessed by EFE.

During these recordings, the control center operator asked the AVE driver to disconnect the LZB security system and reconnect the system that had fallen minutes earlier at 8.36 a.m. He then asked the driver to resume "normal gear"traffic, while the driver repeated instructions received to confirm that he had received the information.

On the other hand, on another recording (which does not distinguish the time at which it occurs), the train driver Iryo 6076 informs the worker at the Adif control centre that after the collapse of the LZB system he did not allow him to "restart the system", so he was "still standing" at the "entrance signal" in Urda, Toledo.

After hanging up, he explains to other colleagues that this 6076 train is having trouble, while discussing the situation: "We havea problem in Urda, "says one of them.

In another audio, the driver calls Atochara because he has suffered a "loss of transmission in the BSL system" and specifies that "Urda is standing at the entrance plant. "The control center worker asks him," Stop, right? "" That's it, "he replies.

They then inform him that they are not allowed to close and adjust the signal and ask the driver to "disconnect and reconnect theLZB system " and then resume "under the protection of BSL with normal gear".

The Renfe and Iryo high-speed train crash in Urda has left at least 68 people dead and several injured.