{"id":423065,"date":"2026-01-21T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423065\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:40:09","slug":"driver-killed-in-derailment-near-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423065\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed in derailment near Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomas Mackintosh,<\/p>\n

Guy Hedgecoeand<\/p>\n

Toby Mann<\/p>\n

\"CatalonianCatalonian fire service<\/p>\n

Fire crews inspect the wreckage of the train in Catalonia<\/p>\n

A train driver has been killed and at least 37 people injured, five seriously, after a commuter train derailed and crashed near Barcelona just days on from a deadly two-train collision in southern Spain on Sunday. <\/p>\n

According to local officials, on Tuesday evening the Rodalies train collided with a retaining wall which fell onto the track between Gelida and Sant Sadurn\u00ed. <\/p>\n

Catalonia regional fire Inspector Claudi Gallardo said all passengers had been removed from the train.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred as heavy storms battered north-eastern Spain, as coastal areas in the east and north-west of Spain are on high alert because of the weather. <\/p>\n

Eleven ambulances were on the scene in Gelida, Catalonia – around 35km (21.7 miles) west of Barcelona – treating those injured, emergency services said.<\/p>\n

The local fire service said 35 crews had been sent to the area and one passenger trapped inside the train had been rescued.<\/p>\n

In a later update it said that no-one remained inside and that its crews were conducting a sweep of the area to rule out any further victims.<\/p>\n

Emergency services said they had evacuated some of the injured to nearby Mois\u00e8s Broggi, Bellvitge, and Vila Franca hospitals.<\/p>\n

As well as the five seriously injured people, six were in a less serious condition and 26 were in a “mild” condition, emergency medical services said.<\/p>\n

\"MossosMossos<\/p>\n

Local police shared an image of emergency services at the scene near G\u00e9lida<\/p>\n

Services suspended<\/p>\n

Another train on the Barcelona commuter network also derailed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“The axle was struck by a rock dislodged by the storm,” Spain’s rail network operator Adif said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The train was running between Blanes and Ma\u00e7anet-Massanes, north-east of Barcelona.<\/p>\n

No injuries have been reported and services have been suspended.<\/p>\n

About 400,000 commuters are expected to be without train services on Wednesday morning, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.<\/p>\n

Services across the Rodalies commuter rail network have been suspended completely while safety checks are carried out.<\/p>\n

Rail operators are expected to meet with authorities after the inspections.<\/p>\n

The crashes in Catalonia come two days after two high-speed trains collided in Adamuz, Andalusia, in one of the worst Spanish rail accidents in over a decade.<\/p>\n

At least 42 people are known to have died after carriages on a Madrid-bound train derailed and crossed over to the opposite tracks and then collided with an oncoming high-speed train.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Mackintosh, Guy Hedgecoeand Toby Mann Catalonian fire service Fire crews inspect the wreckage of the train in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-423065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}