A TRAIN crash in Madrid has left 57 people injured.

The rail board, RENFE, has opened an investigation after two regional lines collided between the stations of Aluche and Fanjul at around 07.40hrs yesterday morning.

Around 1,200 passengers were on board the two trains at the time of the accident.

According to witnesses, the C-5 regional line was travelling towards Móstoles at the time but did not stop at the station in Aluche, leading one of the passengers to pull the emergency brake chord.

A few moments later, the train collided with another coming up behind it whilst reversing back towards the station.

The young man who pulled the emergency chord said he did so because he ‘had to go to work there’ and that the driver ‘was making stops in weird places’.

He is said to have spoken to the driver via the intercom after pulling the chord.

Of the 57 injured in the Madrid train network’s fourth accident in six years, 13 were taken to hospital.

But medical workers say nobody was seriously hurt and all passengers left the train on foot after the crash.

The line between Cuatro Vientos and Laguna was blocked off for most of yesterday until RENFE were able to clear the wreckage.