Human error? After several repairs over the weekend Perhaps someone left the tracks in inappropriate circumstances. Or, already at the time of the accident, Signalman, made the wrong decision. Electrical malfunction? A malfunction may have changed the ADVthe system cars use to change rails, which would have caused the Sarmiento Line to derail. These two hypotheses are mentioned in a preliminary report prepared by Trenes Argentinos and the National Commission for Transport Regulation (CNRT) which will serve as inputs to the investigation conducted by the Court Julian Ercolini For the second lucky railway accident involving a government Javier Miley: There were no serious casualties this time either.
The first option, that of human negligence, gained force as soon as the detour occurred, at 3:45 p.m., when the mismatch occurred on track change 54, after the train had left Liniers station in the direction of Once. It is a possibility because precisely during the last weekend, employees of Herso, the construction company of the Emepa Group, were from Gabriel RomeroWhere they were working to strengthen the roads. “This is the first thing the unions will say,” the government expects. However, the doubt lost its meaning with the arrival of the first technical confirmations: it was possible to carry out the works on the corresponding roads, and not on those going to Wanns.
The second possibility is the energy problem It may have activated the lane change when the last of the seven cars had not yet finished passing. That was, until Tuesday evening, a few hours after the train derailed, what rail technicians considered most likely.
The railway system consists of track, railway changing machine, signals, signal circuits and signal cabins. Once the train’s destination is determined, the switch is set in that direction and the formation advances with the track interlocking that corresponds to that track. When this interlock fails for reasons that may be mechanical, electrical, or other, there is a final alternative: The cabin signal can adjust the course urgently. Something about everything didn’t work.
We will have to wait a few hours to get the final result. This was the government’s second notification. The first was on May 10 last year, when a passenger train on the San Martin line collided from behind into an internal formation without passenger meters before Palermo station, in the federal capital, injuring 90 people, none of them seriously.
This time, unlike that time, the formation was moving at minimum speed: 47 km/h for a section where the maximum speed reaches 60 km/h. We welcome the slowness of a system in which some improvements have been made in recent months, but in which old and new materials coexist and which have been disinvested for several years, even since the declaration of a state of railway emergency, which the Executive declared by decree after the 2024 accident. This announcement stipulated a contribution of 1.3 trillion pesos to the entire national grid, of which 350,000 million were supposed to arrive last year and have not yet been sent.. What is concrete is that so far, as a result of budget constraints, only the current monthly expenses necessary for operation have been met, and not from the emergency stock.
The latest news received by the authorities in this regard was that an important batch would be ready this month. But they waited long enough. So much so that they say so Gabriel BeauchaineThe president of Trenes Argentinos Operaciones (Sofse) even suggested canceling the state of emergency if the promised amount was not fulfilled as any incident would expose him to criminal charges. Sarmiento’s derailment may have accelerated, and at these speeds action, irony, and some key decisions apply For the future.
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