Electrical failure causes chaos and 4-hour delays at Rome train stations

Rome's train stations today experienced a day of chaos with delays of up to four hours and cancellations due to a “technical problem” in the electrical system, with repercussions on the entire national railway line.

Rome station panels announced delays of up to 250 minutes in High Speed train departures and arrivals, as well as cancellations and itinerary changes, and all rail traffic in the capital remains “severely slowed down.”

For example, the high-speed train that crosses the country every day from Venice to Naples has been stopped at the Prenestina station.

The Ferrovie dello Stato group confirmed in a statement that this situation is due to “a technical problem on the power line” and that, since it occurred in Rome, the epicenter of the national railway system, it has affected “all regional lines.”

The failure occurred in the convoys' electrical supply system and is still being investigated.. The Roman stations, such as the main one, Termini, or Tiburtina, experienced a day of large crowds, with hundreds of people waiting to leave for other parts of the country.