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Barcelona Rodalies control-center software failures halt all commuter rail lines

S3 · 06/09
2026 · ~15:25 · Siemens Mobility · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Record

CompanySiemens Mobility
Categoryrail supplier
Typemalfunction
Date06/09
2026
Time of day~15:25
LocationBarcelona, Catalonia, Spain · Estacio de Franca control center
SeverityS3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
Scalefleet-wide (all Rodalies lines in Barcelona metro area)
Confidencehigh
VerificationCited source on file; not independently re-verified
SourceEl Democrata

What happened

Siemens Mobility's centralized traffic control (CTC) software at Adif's Barcelona Estacio de Franca control center failed twice in one day on June 9, 2026, halting all Rodalies commuter/regional rail lines in the Barcelona metro area for hours; Adif and Rodalies de Catalunya announced legal action against Siemens, calling it the fourth such recurring outage in recent months.

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