Transport reduces trains in Madrid-Seville until at the beginning of 2027 it renews the security system and carries out an audit

The circulation of High Speed ​​trains between Madrid and Seville will reduce frequencies until Adif finishes definitively installing the new ERTMS 2 signaling system, replacing the LZB that fell last Wednesday, giving rise to a chain of failures that caused the train accident in Urda. High Speed traffic will not be normalized in this corridor either until the State Railway Safety Agency (AESF) finishes carrying out a new audit to "update" the one it carried out in November 2025.

This is one of the measures that the Council of Ministers agreed on Tuesday to reinforce railway safety and that the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, at the end of the meeting. The modification of circulation on this High Speed ​​line is added to what could also occur if, as the Ministry of Transport is reflecting, it cuts off traffic between Madrid and Barcelona during the renovation works that will begin shortly.

In addition to an increase in controls on decision-making in railway control centers or the improvement of working conditions that the unions have been asking for months for the group of traffic regulators, this decision has to do specifically with the Madrid-Seville line, where in just nine months there have been two serious accidents, in Adamuz and in Urda, related in one way or another to the renovation works.

After the accident in Toledo, High Speed ​​traffic between Madrid and Seville remains interrupted and at the moment there is no forecast to resume it until approximately December 13. But according to part of the measures that the Government has taken this Tuesday, circulation will not foreseeably normalize until the beginning of 2027. It will not do so until the ERTMS system is definitively installed and until a new audit is concluded, as indicated by Puente from the Moncloa press room.