No service on the R3 commuter rail line for the second day in a row

BarcelonaA second consecutive day of problems on the R3 commuter rail line. A second incident affected service on this line, which crosses Central Catalonia, during the early morning hours. Passengers attempting to travel on this Renfe line this morning found it closed from La Garriga to Puigcerdà due to a problem with the infrastructure managed by Adif. The company explained that the cause of the outage was the theft of a cable from the communications system. Workers were able to replace the equipment and resume service at 7:46 a.m. However, Renfe has already implemented an alternative transportation system using buses to ensure passengers can travel. In fact, even though the line has been repaired, there may be changes to schedules and frequencies, which will be gradually restored as service resumes. The R3 line runs vertically across the region, from Tor de Querol and Puigcerdà to L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, passing through Vic and Barcelona. This line has also been undergoing a major track-doubling project for months, with partial closures lasting months or even years, to add more tracks to the route, as it is the last single-track line in Catalonia. This means that when there is a breakdown anywhere along the route, trains cannot overtake, affecting the entire service.