Tag: AVE Iryo collision
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Three safety nets, one gap: what the Urda crash says about fallback protection on Spain’s high-speed lines
The collision between an AVE and an Iryo train near Urda (Toledo) was not a failure of one system. It was a failure of how the line moves from its strongest protection to its weakest ones. The Madrid–Seville high-speed line is protected by three layers, each one the safety net for the one above it:… Read more