MADRID, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Finally, the lights came back on at 21:45 local time in Madrid, nine and a quarter hours after they went off...and the streets rang with cheers as the lights went on.

Spain's national railway company, Renfe, reported that the entire national electricity grid was cut off at 12:30 p.m. local time, bringing train operations to a halt. "Trains stopped" and there were ...