Power outage causes passenger's nightmare: 'We spent the night in a train in Zaragoza' 

Angela, a tourist from Poland, left Madrid around 10:15 am, but her high-speed train stopped 20km before Zaragoza and did not move for 11 hours. "We spent the night in a train in Zaragoza," she told the Catalan News Agency (ACN). 

Passengers were stuck overnight in the train with no air conditioning or toilets. They received water, cookies, and a limited number of sandwiches, prioritizing children and the elderly.  

The train only resumed its journey around 9 am on Tuesday.  

Others faced similar issues. Laia Rafel, who was in Madrid for work, had no signal until midnight and only managed to return Tuesday morning, squeezed into the 8 am service. She called the experience an "odyssey" and said she wouldn’t recover the cost of an unexpected hotel stay. 

Iván Yago and his friends, also stuck in Madrid, waited outside Atocha Station expecting it to reopen at 9:30 pm Monday. It remained closed until the next morning. One couple offered them shelter in a small theater for the night.