29/10/2026
October marks 170 years of train service in Portugal and they planned to do a steam train service between Lisboa Santa Apolónia and Entroncamento. Due to yesterday's big accident in Spain, they canceled the transportation of Government members on board but they still needed to move the consist to Entroncamento, so they used the English Electrics 1424 to tow it as a slow train.
On 28 October 2026, Rúben Viegas covered a chase this train at Espadanal da Azambuja and Virtudes before a technical stop in Setil to l**e the 1424, that's where they diagnosed the 1424 with a oil leak and couldn't continue the tow. The main line was affected by the oil spill so major delays did happen for hours. There was a five hour wait in Setil before the 1455 came from Lisboa to tow the whole train to Entroncamento.
As a side note, there are tales about a major technical fault that happened with the first steam train between Lisboa and Carregado 170 years ago, although it was a bigger mess since it had several important people of the country on board, they waited hours to continue the journey back and forth. So yesterday's events have nostalgia and do fit what happened to the first train.
