By Euro Weekly News Media • Published: 02 Dec 2017 • 13:25
RAILWAY engineers have worked around the clock to repair a section of track where a train in Spain derailed leaving 30 passengers injured, two seriously.
The railway track on the Sevilla-Malaga line was washed away when the Guadaira River flooded between the villages of Arahal and El Sorbito in Sevilla province.
A train carrying around 70 passengers derailed and a helicopter was used to evacuate seriously injured to hospital.
The area was on a severe weather alert at the time and other train services, including between Algeciras and Granada were halted temporarily.
Adif, the railway infrastructure company, has worked non-stop to clear the train from the track and replace the 450m damaged section of the line following the derailment on Wednesday.
Operarios y excavadoras trabajando en el día después del #DescarrilamientoTrenArahal. Enseguida contamos en @canalsur cómo están las labores de reconstrucción de la vía pic.twitter.com/6bdpvCygnb — Rafa Vega (@rafavega_) November 30, 2017
Operarios y excavadoras trabajando en el día después del #DescarrilamientoTrenArahal. Enseguida contamos en @canalsur cómo están las labores de reconstrucción de la vía pic.twitter.com/6bdpvCygnb
— Rafa Vega (@rafavega_) November 30, 2017
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