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Title: Spain / Portugal power outage Post by: Mark A on April 28, 2025, 21:00:40 How is this impacting their railways + transport, I'm wondering.
Mark Title: Re: Spain / Portugal power outage Post by: ChrisB on April 28, 2025, 21:10:55 Long & medium distance trains have been halted, passengers rescued where necessary. Commuter trains restarted this evening in parts
Title: Re: Spain / Portugal power outage Post by: Chris from Nailsea on April 28, 2025, 21:12:26 From the BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn7jgze2xo):
Quote While some flights are running as normal, the issues impacted the roads and public transport is likely to be a problem for travellers trying to get to airports. Spain's Transport Minister Oscar Puente said it was not likely that medium and long-distance trains would resume normal service on Monday. He said the plan was to resume shorter-distance commuter services as soon as electricity supplies had been restored. Work is also under way to rescue people trapped on stranded services. Title: Re: Spain / Portugal power outage Post by: Timmer on April 28, 2025, 22:13:07 Managed to dodge any issues flying home from Spain flying from Girona to Stansted this afternoon. The lights and everything else briefly went out across the airport but didn’t affect the running of the airport at all.
Arrived at Stansted bang on time so thought all would be well getting home until the wretched rail network we have said ‘hold my beer’ with multiple points failures at Reading and Westbury messing up the journey home so a big delay repay claim will be going in tomorrow. When it comes to travelling to and from the airport in future it will never be by train ever again. Messed up big time last November and again today. It will be by car. This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |