{"id":817559,"date":"2026-10-29T12:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817559\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T12:26:11","slug":"families-desperate-for-news-as-rescuers-work-to-identify-spanish-train-crash-victims-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817559\/","title":{"rendered":"Families desperate for news as rescuers work to identify Spanish train crash victims &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Train driver told to &#8216;resume journey&#8217; at normal speed by control centrepublished at 09:37 GMT<\/p>\n<p>09:37 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wreckage of one train is seen in the early morning sun. It is crumped and carriages are displaced. rescue workers can be\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/06f9f252-b486-4520-9620-414d93e8886e.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Audio recordings published by Spanish news outlets, including El Pais and RTVE, reveal the conversations that took place between the two train&#8217;s drivers and the control centre in the Spanish capital ahead of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In one recording, a control centre operator tells the Renfe driver to resume its journey at normal speed after some technical issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Continue your journey and then proceed under [Lateral Signalling Block], at normal speed with normal operation,&#8221; the control centre operator says to the driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The driver replies, &#8220;At normal speed?&#8221; To which the controller says: &#8220;Yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lateral Signaling Block is a back-up or alternative train system used when the automatic signalling or data transmission system fails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Later, the driver of the other Iryo train says in another audio recording that communication with the train-control system has been lost and they are stationary at Urda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The train &#8220;is stationary in front of the entry signal at Urda&#8221;, the driver tells the control centre operator. After a series of exchanges, the driver is then told to &#8220;resume the journey&#8221; normally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Iryo driver then contacts the control centre again, according to a later recording, saying they cannot start the train. &#8220;The train won&#8217;t allow me to control the [security] system. That&#8217;s why I am still stopped in front of the entry signal,&#8221; they say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The latter recording suggests that the controller had been notified that the Iryo train remained stationary as the Renfe train approached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Train driver told to &#8216;resume journey&#8217; at normal speed by control centrepublished at 09:37 GMT 09:37 GMT Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-817559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}