Argentina’s rail system is in a state of emergency. This sentence is short and familiar, but it has been the natural state of affairs in the railroad world for decades. And if you hold a magnifying glass to the branch, you’ll see that it’s where Sarmiento lived long before the tragedies of the past determined the investments the line now supports.
For years, Argentina has been determined to move forward on impulse, slamming the brakes on the road out of the emergency. In other words, investment plans that need to be in the rearview mirror can be interrupted, slowed down, canceled, or even accelerated, depending on your financial situation, desires, and priorities. While the state of emergency continues, trains are running full of passengers.
And then something happens, the lights go on, the unfinished plans are considered, it accelerates for a while, and everything goes back to Argentina’s historical loop and repeats itself.
According to someone who was nearby, Liner derailment accidentthis accident does not appear to be related to human error. Dismissing the driver, who has nothing to do with the incident, the gaze is placed on the track system, which forms the “route” that the convoy must follow.
According to two engineers familiar with the Sarmiento branch, formations, and infrastructure, what happened at Linier? This is a typical accident that occurs when a train makes a track change on a track change grid. That is, the convoy passes, the first vehicle moves on the road, and at that moment the road moves. The rest continued along another iron road. The vehicles left diagonally are said to serve as a kind of “link” between the two trains circulating on separate roads.
now, They say that rerouting is not possible manually. “In a track system, once a signalman sets a route, that route has a built-in mechanism called interlocking, which means it cannot be manually modified or changed,” says a railway expert.
So the engineers wondered why he moved with formations on the grid of change. There are also several possible options, including lack of maintenance, system failure, and manufacturing defects in parts. That’s an area to explore, and there can be human failure there.
that “Interlock system”which prevents human error during train operations, is part of the investment plan that has led to this new railway emergency. That signaling is a deferred project that started with. Florencio Randazzo As Minister of Transport he continued: William Dietrich and the pandemic Alberto Fernandez He interrupted mid-sentence. Currently, this is one of the necessary works as part of the emergency construction plan. And in fact, some of that is being done now.
Some Sarmiento Line engineers commented that the scale of the derailment would have been even greater had it not been for the overall geological and regional conditions. Although there is pending construction, there is no significant deterioration in the track system on that part of the branch. Additionally, the vehicle reacted efficiently to avoid rollovers, etc.
Railway systems are constantly exposed to emergencies. There doesn’t seem to be a list of priorities, a constant flow, or an improvement plan to definitively remove urban rail from its precarious state.
This situation made the Liberal government’s decision not to proceed with some works even more revealing, but Several projects are running in Sarmiento. But in reality, the previous one using duplTo Fernandes and Sergio MassaDuring Mr. Kirchner’s four years of management, he was the de facto number one in the Ministry of Transport. With the exception of Belgrano Sur, virtually no railroad work was progressing.a key section of the viaduct was built, raising the viaduct and eliminating the level crossing.
It is true that things have been done since then the tragedy of the past And some of them were able to prevent the derailment from leading to an even bigger accident. But far from being a strategic plan, what happened had more to do with a spasmodic reaction than a true plan of action.
For example, the Sarmiento circulates for seven kilometers through abandoned tunnels. Not only that, From Caballito onwards, it cuts through Buenos Aires City and the West like a true urban dagger. Without a plan and work plan, problems cannot be solved. And regardless of whether there is an accident or not, the train will travel at a speed of 20km/h in some sections. And there is no getting out of the emergency situation.
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