The train was coming from Sant Vicenc de Calders village in the province of Tarragona on the Rodalies commuter rail service at 7:15 a.m. local time when it crashed into a railroad buffer at the train platform at Francia, a landmark train station in the heart of the city. The impact tore open the nose of the locomotive.
52 ferits en xocar contra topall estació de França un tren de Rodalies. Hi ha 5 ferits greus pic.twitter.com/wg4h45yUQJ
— Guillem Sànchez (@guillem_sm) July 28, 2017
El tren s'ha encastat contra el topall de la via 11 de l'estació de França. El trànsit de trens no s'ha vist afectat
— btv notícies (@btvnoticies) July 28, 2017
At least 51 of the injured need hospital attention, emergency services said according to Reuters. The driver was among the injured, they said. Emergency services say 54 people received medical treatment on the platform in a makeshift triage.
There were no deaths reported.