The Railway Union has concentrated this Saturday in Madrid, accompanied by the Association Victims Derailment Adamuz and railway professionals, to denounce the "abandonment" of railway infrastructures and demand "urgent measures" that strengthen safety after the accidents in Urda, Adamuz and Angrois.
The mobilization took place in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, where the union spokesperson, Rafa Escudero, proposed the creation of a sectoral table with all the actors involved to study the current situation of the railway and agree on common responses.
Among the union's demands is the carrying out of an independent audit of the entire Spanish railway network, along with the launch of new protocols that raise safety levels in train traffic.
Escudero has proposed that, at that table, passenger and freight operators sit, as well as the Ministry, the State Railway Safety Agency (AESF), trade union organizations, and the victim platforms of Adamuz and Angrois, with the purpose of reviewing the condition of the rail system and prioritizing the most urgent actions.
The union representative warned that the decisions announced by the Ministry after the Urda accident are "specific" measures which, although he considers them necessary, "are not going to the root of the problem". "We have a serious problem with maintenance" and infrastructures that have been "abandoned for a long time," he emphasized.
The president of the Association Victims Derailment Adamuz, Mario Samper, has supported the requests of the Railway Union and demanded that victim associations be present at the dialogue table.
Samper also demanded an independent audit of the Madrid-Seville line and explained that the AESF communicated to them in a meeting that it had not been able to move forward with its actions because Adif had not sent the required documentation within the framework of an audit initiated in 2025.
Likewise, he has defended the application of all necessary safety measures, citing as a reference the railway system of Japan, which, as he indicated, has gone 64 years without recording fatal accidents. He also warned of the deterioration of the network and recalled that in the last nine months three fatal accidents have occurred, in addition to the one in Angrois.
In the protest, Luis Carcasona has also intervened, an electrical fitter in security installations and a member of the works committee of Adif for the Railway Union, and the driver Carlos Herranz, who have demanded that safety be placed ahead of profitability and have called for improvements to infrastructure and a reinforcement of the staffing levels. "Many people have died," they lamented.
Among the union's main demands are independent investigations into the accidents in Adamuz and Urda, with European oversight, the review of the report on Angrois, an audit of the renovation of the Madrid-Seville line, and a modification of the maintenance model so that Adif recovers direct control with its own resources.
Escudero has also advanced the call for a union rally on Monday at 11:00 a.m. in Plaza de los Cabezones, in Atocha, after, as he has pointed out, the possibility of holding it in front of the Congress was denied to them.
He has also recalled that on Tuesday 17 a 24-hour strike has been called to demand that "safety be put above any other consideration".