Overview
- Power cuts began around 9:00 AM and plunged lines 3, 5, 7 and 9 into darkness for more than two hours
- Stations including Benimaclet, Alameda and Colón lost power as escalators, elevators and teleindicators went offline
- Passengers evacuated in near darkness using mobile-phone lights after drivers halted trains at affected stops
- Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat reported full lighting and normal circulation resumed by 11:30 AM and said the network is now stable
- The incident adds to a spring of grid instabilities across Spain and intensifies calls for infrastructure upgrades and stronger renewable integration