Santiago de Compostela derailment [SEP] point in time
Santiago de Compostela derailment
The Santiago de Compostela derailment occurred on 24 July 2013, when an Alvia high-speed train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol, in the north-west of Spain, derailed at high speed on a bend about outside of the railway station at Santiago de Compostela. Out of 222 people (218 passengers and 4 crew) on board, around 140 were injured and 80 died.
The train's data recorder showed that it was travelling at about twice the posted speed limit of when it entered a
Santiago de Compostela is twinned with:
See also.
- Auditorio Monte do Gozo
- Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
- "Música en Compostela"
- Order of Santiago
- Santiago de Compostela derailment
- As Orfas
Bibliography.
- Meakin, Annette M. B. (1909). "Galicia. The Switzerland of Spain". London: Methuen & Co.
External links.
- City Council of Santiago de Compostela
- Santiago Tourism