The Objective reports the trains in the Urda crash were already hit by an incident there in September

The Objective reported on Thursday that the two trains that collided on October 28 in Urda (Toledo), AVE 02080 and Iryo 6076, had already been affected on September 15 by an incident on that section. According to the newspaper, Adif, Spain's rail infrastructure manager, halted part of the high-speed traffic at around 8:30 because of a failure on the Toledo section.

The outlet cites a social media post by Adif at 9:10 that day about an incident affecting signaling between Madrid Puerta de Atocha and Los Gavilanes, and another shortly after 6:00 on September 16 in which it declared the incident resolved. According to The Objective, Adif gave no details of the failure beyond the signaling.

The newspaper also cites an email from Renfe to passengers on AVE 02080 that attributed a delay of about 39 minutes to an incident involving a preceding Iryo train. According to the outlet, those two trains usually ran one behind the other, according to rail industry sources.

The Objective acknowledges that it has not been able to determine the exact point where the two trains were that day, because the AVE's GPS records do not go back to that date and Iryo does not publish geolocation data for its trains.

Developing story: the information comes from a single outlet, based on passenger accounts and anonymous sources; Adif, Renfe or Iryo have yet to confirm the September incident and the position of the two trains, and the investigating commission (CIAF) has not commented on it.