Spanish transport services are going back to the drawing board after spending millions of euros on new commuter trains that are too large to fit in tunnels of the rail network.
Two senior officials in the Spanish transport industry were fired earlier this week after local news outlet El Comercio reported last month that the government had spent €258 million (about $276 million) on unusable trains.
The 31 trains were meant to replace older ones in the north of Spain — on a route that connected the Cantabria and Asturias regions.
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President of Cantabria Miguel Angel Revilla called the circumstance an “unspeakable botch,” according to local newspaper El Diario Montañés.
Renfe — the country’s national train operator — ordered the trains in 2020, granting the manufacturing contract to the transport manufacturing company CAF.
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