The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, has engaged in a dispute on the social network X with the PP deputy in the Madrid Assembly, Ignacio Catalá, following the derailment of the Iryo train in Adamuz (Córdoba). The confrontation arises after the Madrid parliamentarian questioned the documentation disseminated by the Ministry regarding the condition of the track.
Specifically, Catalá posted a message on his personal account stating: "The supposed invoice says it's from 24/01/09! And the track has the ENSIDESA mark, which ceased to exist under that name in the 90s! BUT WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE WE DEALING WITH? Hoaxes, hoaxes, and more hoaxes".Fortunately, in hands that know that the date follows the international standard ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) and that know that Ensidesa is the commercial brand of Arcelor Mittal for all the rails it manufactures, regardless of the manufacturing year. https://t.co/JaTKlxa5Dw
In response to these claims, Puente also stated on X: "Fortunately, in hands that know that the date follows the international standard ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD) format and that know Ensidesa is the commercial brand of Arcelor Mittal for all the rails it manufactures, regardless of the manufacturing year".
In addition, the minister reported this Sunday that the broken track on which the Iryo train derailed in Adamuz **is a new track**, manufactured in 2023 and installed during May and June of 2025, and that it has an inspection certificate after having passed all the corresponding technical checks, **dismissing as a "hoax" the claims that stated otherwise.**
Puente detailed in his message that the rail has the number 312592Y101 and weighs 60 kilos, and accompanied the publication with several photographs, as well as with the shipping note for the material by ArcelorMittal. The minister responded in this way to information published this Sunday by the newspaper El Mundo, which claims that the point on the track where the Iryo 6189 began to derail, on the Madrid-Andalusia high-speed corridor, corresponds to an unrepaired section manufactured in 1989. "Another HOAX as big as a cathedral, and on the front page. The years pass and everything remains the same: disaster, followed by misinformation," Puente concluded.