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The substitute on the head of the Investigative Court quantity 2 of Montoro (Córdoba), with Judge Cristina Pastor Recover already in possession of the place as an alternative of substitute choose Carmen Troyano, marks a turning level within the technical investigation into the Adamuz prepare accident (Córdoba). The plenary session of the Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF), chaired by Iñaki Barrón, has been convened in a unprecedented session this Wednesday to recount the fabric collected for evaluation; look at whether or not new necessities are mandatory, and draw up the outlines of what would be the definitive report on the causes of the accident, which concerned an Iryo prepare and a second Renfe prepare on January 18.

Sources near the preparations of the textual content level out that within the chapter of suggestions the infrastructure supervisor Adif can be pressured to allocate larger sources to the upkeep of the networks, embody extra demanding protocols for the set up and welding of rails, and apply all doable rigor in building inspections, such because the renovation of the Madrid-Seville high-speed line. This would attempt to demand the expression of the dedication just lately signed by the Ministry of Transport, earlier than the unions within the railway sector, to allocate an additional 1,800 million to the care of the railway infrastructure between 2026 and 2030, along with the 7,000 million that had been already budgeted. The preparation and publication of the ultimate report should take a number of months.

CIAF personnel are ready for Judge Pastor Recover to authorize the overturning of the black packing containers of the broken trains and, above all, to designate the laboratory by which the proof collected on the trackside at kilometer level 318,681 of the Madrid-Seville line can be analyzed. The CIAF has despatched a listing ready by itself explaining the capabilities of every of those facilities specialised in metal and metallurgical evaluation.

As reported by El PAÍS, the investigations are going slower than initially deliberate: Iryo has offered all the data requested, whereas the infrastructure supervisor Adif and the operator Renfe have transferred virtually all of it. The latter nonetheless has to make obtainable to the investigation, this week, dozens of recordings of the communications maintained after the accident on January 18.

The CIAF already has key proof within the case, which is the file of the welding and its cooling course of by the Galician firm Maquisaba. This is the report of the welding suspected of getting triggered the breakage of a rail dated by the producer ArcelorMitttal in 2023, and of the 113 extra that Maquisaba itself carried out within the space of ​​the Adamuz banalization station, of which 16 be a part of rails of various years of manufacturing and diploma of hardness.

Regarding the minutes, Adif sources and others aware of the development undertaking insist that “the welding was done with the lowest hardness grade of rail steel, 260, as established by Adif’s general procedure.”

It is predicted that the opening of the judicial registers or black packing containers of the trains will affirm knowledge corresponding to the precise velocity at which they had been touring – it was estimated that it was about 200 kilometers per hour on a straight line with a restrict of 250 – or the precise level and second of the Alvia’s collision with the Iryo convoy. In the absence of refining this data, the CIAF begins to have elements to determine a mathematical evaluation that explains the breakage of the rail, just a few centimeters from the weld, and the derailment itself. All of this might type a brand new informative observe on the occasion earlier than being integrated into the ultimate report. Weeks after the tragedy, one of many unresolved questions is why there are trains that handed by way of Adamuz earlier than the derailed Iryo receiving blows from the fractured rail on the wheels, which left notches, and others that crossed with out receiving any scratches.

The relaunch of the judicial and technical investigations is, subsequently, within the palms of the brand new choose Pastor Recover, who’s a part of the 23 magistrates integrated into Andalusian courts final Friday. Together along with her, María del Carmen Blanque arrives in Montoro as head of the Civil and Investigation part of the Court of Instance. Blanque will present help within the investigation of the macro-cause of the Adamuz incident.