Adif has already covered the collapse on the R2 and Rodalies can start test journeys

BarcelonaAdif has announced that it has finished the operations to cover with concrete thesinkhole that opened on Wednesday during the works to bury the R2 line, on the border between Barcelona and Montcada i Reixac. The company assures that, once all safety checks have been completed, the infrastructure is now available to Rodalies so that it can begin conducting test runs, empty train journeys before restoring service.

However, as of now, the specific date on which the three lines affected by this week's collapse will be able to resume operation has not been confirmed: the R2, the R2 Nord, and the R11. This Saturday morning, the Minister of Territory, Sílvia Paneque, stated that she expects traffic on the affected lines to resume from next week. Even before Adif's announcement, Paneque explained that once the company finished covering the sinkhole, the test runs would begin and she anticipated that "in all probability" the service would be normalized next week.

Adif has also assured that the monitoring carried out on the railway infrastructure and the homes closest to the sinkhole that opened on Wednesday confirms that

17 meters deep

In the statement issued this Saturday, Adif specifies that the ground collapse reached a depth of seventeen meters and a diameter of nineteen meters. The sinkhole opened next to the shaft built to start digging a tunnel. The ground drag swallowed heavy machinery, including a large crane, which has been buried under the 1,930 cubic meters of concrete with which they have covered the sinkhole.

In addition to the impact on these three lines due to the sinkhole in the works, this Saturday traffic on line R3 is also suspended. In this case, due to an incident in the railway traffic regulation system.