They control fire in ferrocisternas with alcohol after derailment in Matanzas - Cubadebate

Train derails and burns on the outskirts of the Benavides community, in Matanzas Ania Liste 10 May 2025

Eduardo Rodríguez Dávila, Minister of Transport of Cuba, today reported on the occurrence last night of a railway accident at kilometer 80,500 of the Central Line, near the station Mocha, in Matanzas, which temporarily interrupted the traffic of national trains. According to the minister on Facebook, the Extra Train 924, which transported alcohol from the Melanio Hernández distillery, in Sancti Spiritus, to the rum factory of Santa Cruz del Nort…

About 100 meters of line were affected and several train routes are interrupted

The incident occurred when one of the ferrocisters overturned and three others derailed.

Havana, May 10 (RHC) The deputy director of the Western Railway Company, René Peña García, reported that the fire in tanks of a train carrying alcohol is already under control, on the outskirts of the Benavides settlement, rural area of the Cuban municipality of Matanzas.

The accident occurred in km 80 of the Central Line, near the community Benavides, in the municipality Matanzas. There is no loss of human life. Firefighters work to achieve the extinction and personnel of Railways in order to liberate the road obstructed by derailment. The post They control fire in ferrocisternas with alcohol after derailment in Matanzas first appeared on Cubadebate.