What's up today · by Aoife Murphy · 2026-10-28

Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain

First footage of the wreckage is coming out this morning. Spain's high-speed network has one of the best safety records in Europe so this is a real shock. Thoughts with everyone affected. Curious what investigators find, signalling failure or something else?

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Sebastián Rojas · 7 likes

spanish HSR is normally rock solid, this is awful. hope the numbers stay low

Omar Hassan · 0 likes

Two trains on the same line at speed means something went very wrong with signalling or dispatching, cant be just driver error with ETCS

Priya Nair · 2 likes

lets wait for the investigation before calling it, early reports are always messy