Renfe reported this Thursday morning that at 4:40 a.m. the computer fault that affected the Talgo Avril trains since yesterday, Wednesday, was corrected and that, therefore, the normal programming of the lines in the three corridors that link Madrid with Galicia-Asturias, Madrid-Zaragoza-Barcelona and Madrid-Levante.
This has been confirmed to EFE by sources from , who have detailed that since 07:00 on January 1, all self-propelled series 106 (Standard and Conventional Gauge) were inoperative due to software loading problems. “Once the computer failure of the Talgo Avril trains has been corrected, the usual programming is recovered normally since the beginning of the service in the three corridors that connect Madrid with Galicia/Asturias, Madrid-Zaragoza/Barcelona and Madrid-Levante,” the company reported. in a message on social network X.
Yesterday, Renfe designed a special operational plan to relocate affected travelers on other trains and scheduled specific alternative road transport plans when relocation was not possible. Although the total number of those finally affected was not stated, it was reported that a total of 28 convoys were affected with a potential number of travelers of up to 24,000.
📢🔔Once the computer breakdown of the Talgo Avril trains has been corrected, the usual programming is recovered normally from the beginning of the service, in the three corridors that link Madrid with Galicia/Asturias, Madrid-Zaragoza/Barcelona and Madrid-Levante.
— InfoRenfe (@Inforenfe)
Talgo, for its part, has indicated on the same social network that the computer problem affected Ingeteam’s battery chargers and that it has informed Renfe this morning that the fault has been resolved.
As Ingeteam communicated to Talgo, the problem with these equipment was related to the change of year. “After the incident with the start of the day was detected yesterday, Talgo began to work with the Ingeteam teams and, in collaboration with Renfe and Tarvia, to solve the communication problem with the battery chargers,” explained Talgo, who underlined that since early this Thursday the trains have been at the operator’s disposal to be able to carry out the service.
Avril trains regain normal operation after solving the computer problem with the battery chargers
Talgo has informed Renfe of the start-up of the Avril after solving the communication problem with the battery chargers of…
— Talgo (@TalgoGroup)
The new incident thus adds to what happened last spring. In total, Renfe requests compensation of 116 million euros for the delay of almost two years in the delivery of the 30 units ordered between 2016 and 2017. The first Talgo Avril finally circulated in Spain on May 21 of last year, after that weeks of incidents related to this rolling stock arrived. In total, in the first three months of operation,
