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Spain's rail head resigns over bungled train orders resulting in trains too wide for tunnels
Renfe in June 2020 ordered 31 commuter trains worth 258 million euros (AU$402 million) from Spanish firm CAF for the mountainous northern regions of Asturias and Cantabria.
But in March 2021, CAF realised the dimensions it was provided for the trains were not correct and stopped building the trains, which would have been too wide for some tunnels.

Isaias Taboas, who has headed Renfe since June 2018, submitted his resignation on Monday.

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Why should he resign? Surely he wasn't the one who made the mistake? That would have been someone further down the chain of command. And CAF should also have noticed and queried the dimensions. After all they are both a long established company and more or less local to the area in which the trains would be used. A contract that size is not like doing online supermarket shopping; it's a partnership between the customer and supplier with a lot of communication between the parties, or at least it should be.

Large engineering concerns often know as much, sometimes more, about the technicalities of the customer's infrastructure than the customer.

And to answer the title question: of course I have made mistakes, I'm thankful that none were on such an epic scale.