The Railway Accident Investigation Committee called for measures in 2024 to prevent human failures
A report warned that the verification of the railway is in the hands of the human factor and called for technical measures to reduce collisions. The documents were drawn up following an incident at the Cuenca Railway Station, very similar to that at Urda Station, caused by security systems and various failures.
The adoption of technical measures and the strengtheningof protocols were the main conclusions of the Commission for the Investigation of Railway Accidents (CIAF) in its report on an incident at Cuenca-Fernando Zobel station on 25 June 2024.
In this incident, too, a High Speed Train repudiated a red signal , but fortunately there were no fatalities or injuries, but what happened there was very similar to what happened in Urda, Toledo.
This warning at the time has gained prominence following the serious accident that took place this Wednesday in this Toledana town, where a Renfe AVE train and a Iryo train were involved.
What happened at Cuenca station?
The AVE train from Murcia to Madrid stopped at Cuenca station to get the passengers up. When it started, the driver misinterpreted the signal, which was red, and started the train.
As soon as the train passed the red signal, the safety system automatically detected the problem, the ERTMS system's TRIP mode, and immediately stopped the train, but after that there was a second failure; neither the driver nor the station's traffic manager identified that the train had passed the red signal.
The foreman, having observed that the next section of the railway was free, and on the basis of a purely human check, allowed the train to start again.
The Railway Accident Investigation Committee investigated this incident and warned in a report that subjecting safety to the human factor isdangerous and easy to fail. The Commission called for automatic technical measures to prevent these human failures.
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