A French 15-year-old boy died after touching overhead electricity cables when messing about with a group of friends at Les Borges del Camp station near Tarragona.
Passengers on the 19.05 from Santander to Madrid were left stranded for several hours last night after the driver stopped the train mid-route because his shift had officially ended.
The train that derailed and killed four people in Spain was travelling at 118 kilometres per hour, a court said on Tuesday based on information from its black boxes, on a track that allowed just 30 km / ph.
Excessive speed is the most likely cause of a train crash in northwestern Spain which killed four people, the
mayor of the local town suggested on Saturday.
Workers at Spain’s national rail network have been called out on strike next Wednesday in industrial action that is promising to cause maximum disruption for Easter travellers.
A 14-year-old boy was given a serious electric shock after hitting cables while attempting to take a selfie on the rood of a commuter train outside Barcelona.
The strikes are taking place during three separate time periods during Friday which could see thousands of travellers across Spain suffering disruptions.
UPDATE: Service resumed around 11am after the network was shut down leaving nearly 10,000 passengers stranded on Thursday morning following a suspected act of sabotage.
With train workers and airport luggage handlers going on strike starting on Friday, weekend travelers will face some obstacles in getting to their desired destinations. Here’s what you need to know.
Ayoub El Khazzani, a Moroccan man accused of a foiled attack on a crowded Amsterdam-Paris train, was a small-time hashish dealer who liked to play football, two young men from his former Madrid neighbourhood said on Monday.
A freezing Russian winter and high transport costs have postponed the return voyage of a new train which operators hope will regularly travel the 13,000-kilometre (8,000-mile) route between Madrid and the Chinese city of Yiwu.
Eight provincial Spanish capitals are set to be hooked up to Spain's world-beating high-speed rail system in 2015 as the country rushes towards general elections.
The first freight train to link China directly to Spain arrived in Madrid on Tuesday after covering over 13,000 kilometres (8,000 miles) in a test run of a planned regular service between the two nations.
The number of people using Spain’s long-distance trains jumped 7.5 percent in 2013 but the overall rate of public transport use is still sliding in the crisis-hit country.
A woman died on Wednesday in Spain's Galicia region after a freight train ploughed into the van she had been driving, fatally sending the wreckage in her direction as she tried to flee the scene.
Nearly eight years after a tragic underground railway accident in Spain's Valencia region which killed 43 people, a judge has finally called in three top railway officials for questioning.
Spanish police detained nine people on Monday as part of a probe into suspected embezzlement linked to the construction of a high-speed rail link between Madrid and Barcelona, officials said.
The driver of a Spanish train that flew off the rails and killed 79 people admitted speeding but complained bitterly about a dangerous curve as he lay trapped in his cabin, a new recording reveals.
Footage of the train accident which killed at least 78 people near the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela shows the high-speed train spinning off the tracks as it comes out of a curve at around 190kph (118mph).
A high-profile opening ceremony and 50 percent introductory discounts mark the roll out of the new service which will slash travel times between Madrid and the coastal city of Alicante to just 2 hours and 20 minutes.
