The complications accumulate this Thursday in the Italian railway network after the interruption of circulation caused by the derailment of several wagons of a freight train at the Castello station in Florence (central-north), which has forced the suspension of the service in large part of the country
“Railway circulation is interrupted both on the high-speed line and on the traditional line due to the derailment of some carriages of a freight train at the Florence Castello station. The infrastructure has suffered significant damage,” the Railway Network explained in a note. Italian (RFI).
Hundreds of people, many of them tourists, crowd the central stations of the main Italian cities after their journeys have been canceled due to the paralysis of the circulation of high-speed trains between Milan (north), Venice (northeast) and Rome (center) which, de facto, makes it impossible to travel between the north and south of the country.
For the moment, “the high-speed services of the Milan-Rome and Venice-Rome lines and the Florence-Prato-Viareggio regional line are affected by the interruption, as well as some connections to Florence and south to Bologna”, added RFI.
The accident also caused the Sesto Fiorentino interurban train, with 160 people on board, to be detained since 2:20 a.m. this morning (00:20 GMT on Wednesday) and for the moment its passengers have not been able to be evacuated, as they are in a inaccessible area on the outskirts of Florence.
Until there the Police have moved to be able to help people to leave the wagons.
It will be necessary to wait until the early hours of the afternoon for the reestablishment, at least, of the high-speed train lines between Bologna and Florence, while the time to recover normality will be longer for regional trains, according to local media.
The derailment would have knocked down some poles and towers that support the cables that supply electricity to the trains and the track.
In addition to the problems in the stations in the center and the north, there are also problems in the connections with the south of the country. The two trains that left this morning from Turin and Milan to Naples are 215 minutes late and replacement or cancellation services are planned for five trains departing from the capital of Campania.
The Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, “is closely following what happened in Florence and is in permanent contact with the RFI technicians,” he explained in a note.
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