According to the latest weekly limitations document from Adif, Catalonia currently has 183 railway sections with reduced speed, affecting 163 kilometers of track. This figure represents a significant increase compared to the approximately ninety points that existed before the Gelida incident.
Following the accident on January 20, which caused the death of a trainee driver and dozens of injuries when an R4 train collided with a collapsed retaining wall, Adif began to implement new safety limitations. The number of affected sections reached a peak of 225 in early March, with 180 km of track restricted. Currently, the figure has been reduced to 183.
The accident, caused by a retaining wall affected by heavy rains, led to the temporary suspension of services on the entire Rodalies network for infrastructure inspection. This situation caused significant disruptions to the mobility of thousands of users, with lines partially interrupted for several days.
Pressure from train drivers, who demanded the restoration of safety standards after the death of a colleague, culminated in a strike called between February 9 and 11. In the weeks following the accident, the operator progressively increased the number of speed-limited sections to minimize risks.
Adif's weekly document, which includes all current limitations on the national rail network (excluding high-speed lines), details that over sixty sections have speed reductions of up to 30 km/h. Another fifteen sections operate between 10 and 20 km/h, fifty at 50 km/h, and thirty at 60 km/h.
45% of the sections with limited speed are concentrated in the Barcelona province (83 sections), about ten more than before the accident. Tarragona has 57 affected sections (30% of the total), Girona has around thirty, and Lleida has only 13, although this figure is double that at the time of the incident.
