Compostela railway station is linked to the Spanish High Speed Railway Network. Madrid is reached in 3 hours. Porto can also be reached in less than 5 hours changing to the Celta train in Vigo. On 24 July 2013 there was a serious rail accident near the city in which 79 people died and at least 130 were injured when a train derailed on a bend as it approached Compostela station. Sports teams SD Compostela (football) - Obradoiro CAB (basketball) - Santiago Futsal (futsal) - Santiago Black Ravens (American football) - Arteal Tenis de Mesa (table tennis) - Escudería Compostela (motorsport) - Santiago Rugby Club (rugby union) Estrela Vermelha FG (Gaelic football) Notable people Bernal de Bonaval, 13th-century troubadour in the Kingdom of Galicia who wrote in the Galician-Portuguese language Sancho de Andrade de Figueroa (1632–1702), Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Quito (1688–1702) and Bishop of Ayacucho o Huamanga (1679–1688) Juan Antonio García de Bouzas (c.1680–1755), Baroque painter, his principal works are in the churches at Santiago Eugenio Montero Ríos (1832–1914), politician, served briefly as Prime Minister of Spain in 1905 Rosalía de Castro (1837–1885), romanticist writer and poet Antonio Machado Álvarez (1848–1893) known as Demófilo, writer, anthropologist and Spanish folklorist Narcisa Pérez Reoyo (1849-1876), writer Modesto Brocos (1852–1936), Brazilian painter, designer and engraver Carmen Babiano Méndez-Núñez (1852–1914), painter and a pioneer in feminine art Manuel Maria Puga y Parga aka "Picadillo" (1874–1918), culinary writer and gastronome, popularized traditional Galician cooking José Robles (1897–1937), academic, left-wing activist, born to an aristocratic family, went into exile in the USA Juan Sáenz-Díez García (1904–1990), entrepreneur and Carlist politician Xerardo Fernández Albor (1917–2018), physician and politician, president of Galicia from 1981 to 1987 Isaac Díaz Pardo (1920–2012), intellectual, painter, ceramist, and businessman Xohana Torres (1931–2017), writer, poet, playwright, and member of the Royal Galician Academy Adela Akers (born 1933), textile and fiber artist, raised in Peru and Cuba, now lives in Guerneville, California Xosé Manuel Beiras (born 1936), politician, economist, writer and intellectual Roberto Vidal Bolaño (1950–2002), playwright and actor, celebrated by Galician Literature Day in 2013 Ana Romero Masiá (born 1952), historian, archaeologist and academic Mariano Rajoy (born 1955), politician, Prime Minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018 Suso de Toro (born 1956), writer of more than twenty novels and plays in Galician Carlos Ferrás Sexto (born 1965), geographer and academic Octavio Vázquez (born 1972), composer of classical music Yolanda Castaño (born