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Re:Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disas... by lifestyleguru on Sunday January 25, 2026 @03:38PM (#46757930)
> Santiago de Compostela derailment

Hey that infrastructure looks perfectly fine and new, ahhh ok... they were going 180kmh where the speed limit was 80kmh..

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Re:Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disas... by pibaker on Sunday January 25, 2026 @03:52PM (#46758070)
Which is also exactly how the most deadly rail incident in the past half century in japan happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_derailment

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Re:Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disas... by lifestyleguru on Sunday January 25, 2026 @05:42PM (#46759332)
We oftentimes take ridiculous risks to save only 1-5 minutes of our time. Although reading about the Spanish disaster, the driver was rather reckless.
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Re:Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disas... by andy12_ on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @08:22AM (#46795036)
Which is a problem that would have been prevented had they not purposefully disabled the ERTMS signaling system to avoid delays.
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