Watch: In Spain, Passengers Experience Bumpy Ride On Train Upgraded For Rs 35,000 Crore

When a train is upgraded for a hefty amount of 3,475,000,000 pounds (Approximately Rs 35,000 crore), one at least expects a smooth ride. However, passengers on a high-speed train in Spain experienced a bumpy ride for about three hours. They were on the way to Gijon from Madrid when the newly refurbished and “improved” high-speed train began shaking up violently. An X user, Alex Sanchez, shared a video of this shaky ride on X where it got over five lakh views since it was shared on June 14.

Alex Sanchez tagged Renfe, Spain’s national state-owned railway company, and Óscar Puente, the Minister of Public Works and Transport of Spain, in his post and wrote that they kept “bouncing” throughout the journey. He added that he travels on this route every week and he has “never seen anything like this” before.

In a follow-up post, Alex Sanchez speculated that he thought the problem was with the train and not the tracks. He wrote, “If the problem were the tracks it would occur on all trains. I think the problem is with the train since otherwise it would happen on more trains.”

Renfe responded to this now-viral post and apologised to the passengers for the inconvenience. The train company added that they have “immobilised the train to analyse the cause of this anomaly and report the incident to the manufacturer”.

This post prompted many people to share how they experienced similar shaky rides on high-speed trains. An X user wrote, “It happened to me last week, we went from Malaga to Barcelona, and the journey to Madrid was great, but from Madrid to Barcelona it seemed like a shaker, I don’t understand it.”

Another person wrote, “I travelled on Sunday from Gijón – Madrid (departure at 11:26) the train went to Castellón. The train had the same aesthetics as this one. The seats were uncomfortable. They were like the old wooden ones that I had only seen in the Railway Museum. The train moved a lot. It didn’t seem normal to me!”

An X user shared, “Last Sunday, coming from Huelva in Alvia, the same thing happened to us. Trying to reduce travel time should not turn the train into a mixer. Years ago the same route was covered in 4 hours and did not happen.”

Ileón, a local newspaper from León in Spain, reported that the train should have been stopped and inspected if it was this shaky. An expert told Ileón, that beyond the extreme discomfort of passengers, the train could have been derailed.