The families of two Australians have received the tragic news that their loved ones were among the bodies in Spain’s horror train collision.

Spanish authorities said the two Aussies were among 69 people who were formally identified from Europe’s worst ‌train crash since 2013.

The families endured an agonising wait during the painstaking process of forensically confirming each victim.

Among the dead were 54 Spanish citizens and 15 foreigners, including four Americans, a Canadian and the two Australians.

On Sunday, 13 people still had not been identified from the midweek train crash near Urda in the Castile-La Mancha region.

“It is expected that the remaining victims will also be identified within the coming hours. These are likely to be exclusively people from abroad,” authorities said at the time.

Forty injured passengers are still receiving hospital treatment, 17 of them in intensive care.

The accident occurred when a high-speed train collided with a stationary train about 130km south of Madrid.

The agonising wait to identify loved ones at the crash site. Photo: AAP

On Monday (local time), Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the government would approve an aid package doubling payouts for crash victims, advancing compensation payments and improving temporary incapacity cover.

Sanchez said the priority was helping ‌victims and “restoring ​the shattered confidence in high-speed rail as soon as possible with whatever it takes”.

After cabinet meets ​on Tuesday ‌(local time) to approve the package, Transport minister Oscar Puente is expected to present new safety measures.

Spanish newspaper El ​Pais, citing unidentified sources, reported the measures being considered included imposing a 40km/h speed limit when relying on a driver’s vision to see obstacles ahead if a signal system ​fails.

Meanwhile, the transport minister will be grilled by lawmakers over his handling of the disaster amid widespread calls for his resignation.

It was the second accident on the same line this year after a crash in January that killed 46 people.

Puente has refused to step down, saying his way of taking responsibility was to “face up” to the ‌crisis by explaining ‌what happened to the ⁠public and fixing the system.

Puente said on Friday a computer failure knocked out the signalling system and a subsequent ​control-centre order for the train to resume its journey was “inexplicable”.

-with AAP