(29 Apr 2025)
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Madrid – 29 April 2025
1. Various of people at train station
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pablo Vergoglio, retired engineer:
"We’re waiting for news, anyway, it’s the fastest option because the buses to Seville take six hours so here we are waiting to see what happens.”
3. Wide of people at station
4. Jaime Toledo, lawyer, and family waiting
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jaime Toledo, lawyer from Brazil:
“(Yesterday) We did everything walking, all the stores were closed, and we had to stay at the hotel waiting for the electricity to come back the whole day."
6. Man waiting
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Castro, railway passenger:
"I have the ticket for today, for 12 o’clock, but I don’t know how this is working right now. At this moment, a lot of people, very little information, I don’t know where to catch it or anything. Still a bit of a mess."
8. Various of people at station
9. Military vehicle outside station
10. Various of exterior of station
STORYLINE:
At Spain’s largest train stations, droves of travelers waited Tuesday morning to board trains, or to rebook tickets for journeys that were canceled or disrupted on Monday and return home.
At Atocha station in Madrid, hundreds of people stood near screens waiting for updates.
Many had spent the night at the station, wrapped in blankets provided by the Red Cross around 1 a.m. Tuesday morning for those who had to wait overnight thanks to canceled trains.
Similar scenes played out at Barcelona’s Sants station.
Power was almost fully restored to Spain and Portugal on Tuesday although many questions remained about what caused one of Europe’s most severe blackouts that grounded flights, paralyzed metro systems, disrupted mobile communications and shut down ATMs across the Iberian Peninsula.
By 7 a.m., more than 99% of energy demand in Spain had been restored, the country’s electricity operator Red Eléctrica said.
Portuguese grid operator REN said Tuesday morning all of the 89 power substations were back online since late last night and power had been restored to all 6.4 million customers.
By Tuesday morning, life was returning to normal: schools and offices reopened in Spain, traffic eased along the capital’s main arteries and public transport restarted after significant delays.
Spanish authorities did not provide new explanations for what caused the blackout, one of the most serious to ever take place in Europe.
In a televised address Monday night, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the power grid for the southern European nation of 49 million people lost 15 gigawatts — equivalent to 60% of its national demand — in just five seconds.
AP video shot by Alicia Leon Perea
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