CORCAIGH in yellow letters. This sign used be on top of the old airport terminal.
Back where it all started five days ago. Thanks for reading and commenting. #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Anyway I had time for a snack. Sants is one noisy place though. #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Turquoise Mediterranean
Sand and sea
Golden sands and sea
Some nice views from the R2S near #Sitges .
#speirgorm #occitanierail
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Two class 142 Mikado steam locos.
Array of black locos
View from the drivers seat of a class 142 Mikado. My father and grandfather would have had a similar view back in the day.
Lovely roundhouse wooden roof and green steam locos
Of course there were loads of steam engines, with black being the favourite colour but a few green ones from the early days. #Vilanova #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Swiss crodile electric loco in blue
Two American styled locos , one is unique in having three bogies
Front of loco 7807 with Westinghouse builder's plaque.
Interior of original Talgo carriage - reminiscent of a plane with aviation style seats
No doubting the American and Swiss ancestry of these locos. The Talgo was ground breaking in its day - lightweight and fast. #Villanova #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Classic Talgo loco in American style
Former signal box of Barcelona Francis station. Map with loads of levers.
Roundhouse and steam locos
Diesel and electric
I booked Vilanova as it was cheaper than Barcelona but with a decent connection to the airport. Discovered afterwards that there is a railway museum here and it's excellent ! Great to see the classic Talgo and so many historic locos. #Vilanova #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Small station building "Ribes Roges"
Small turntable in front of six bay engine shed
View of track, trees and small bridge
Day 5. Good morning from Vilanova I Geltrú. They've a wee beach front railway here but it it's closed at the moment. Looks quite impressive with its turntable, engine shed and station. #Speirgorm #Vilanova #OccitanieRail
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Sun starting to set. Wide open Vilanova beach.
And just like that the sun pops out for a better shot. #Speirgorm #Vilanova #OccitanieRail
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Pyrenees
View west along the beach at Vilanova
The Med.
Today summed up: from the mountains to the sea. #Speirgorm #Vilanova #Nuria #OccitanieRail
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Large station building with three triple story portions. Fancy.
Vilanova I la Geltrú. Impressive station building and end of today's journeys. #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail #Vilanova
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Fine multi story building with a fancy tower like structure
Small blue railway snowplow. Looks fairly underpowered
Ripolll and it's rather fine railway station. And a snowplow that looks like it has seen better days. #Ripoll #OccitanieRail #Speirgorm
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Mountain and crevasse views
More mountain
Look it's a mountain
Hilly vista
Back down and time for the train to Barcelona. The trip up to Nuria is highly recommended. #Speirgorm #Nuria #OccitanieRail
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Mountain lake with religious complex
More views of religious complex.
Same again - lake.
And the summit at Nuria. Theres a cable car here for onward journey. Unfortunately it's right round and back down for me. #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Video showing drivers eye view of train going up a mountain
Suas suas suas !
You can see the rack between the rails which assists traction
#Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Vall de Nuria train arriving into Ribes. Sound on for the whistle #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Former Brunig Bahn coaches from 1949
Old manual crane and stone station building
Looking into the train shed for the narrow gauge railway
These two carriages have a long history judging by what's painted on them. #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Train, tracks, mountain in distance.
Nice redbrick station building with heavily graffitied train arriving
Ribes de Freser. Bit of a wait here until my next train. #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Valley, misty mountain.
Train curving
Valley town.
Internal seating. Looks basic but is quite decent
The Spanish train makes its way in a stately fashion. This is a broad gauge train so space is ample. #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Station building and loco from Paris, multiple units for Toulouse and Barcelona
Well graffitied Spanish multiple units.
Track with third rail
Mountains
Goodbye France, Hello Spain. Arrived in Latour. Thankfully the Spanish train waited. The carriages to the left are the night train from Paris. On the left is the line for Le Train Jaune - timetabling a bit all over the place so couldn't fit it in. #LatourdeCarol #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Small station building, large mountain.
Mist, station eign., small waterfall.
Andorre L'Hospitalet. Change here for infrequent buses to Andorra. #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Station with plaque detailing altitude
Mountain mist
Mérens-les-Vals. Altitude 1057m. #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Running a few minutes late the train continues its climb. Across we catch a glimpse of a mountain top village. #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Riverside buildings
Castle
Mountain
Castle through the trees
Heading upwards now. Foix station is guarded by an imposing castle dating from around 987 in one guise or another. This riverside town looks pretty .
(Terrible pictures)
#Foix #OccitanieRail #Speirgorm
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Red and grey SNCF train under a cast iron roof. Container train in the background.
Day 4. Time to leave Toulouse and head for the hills. #Toulouse #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Tell me that this isn't like something out of Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica. #Teleo #Speirgom #OccitanieRail #Toulouse
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Cable car passing a pylon
View towards the Oncopole district.
Two cable cars, large units sliding doors.
Interior - 4 sets of padded benches
In all the tourist stuff I read about the Pink City it wasn't mentioned that they have cable cars as part of the public system. It was dark by the time I found out but it's still a bit magical and futuristic. #Toulousr #Teleo #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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I can't believe they let me drive the Toulouse metro. #Toulouse #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Red train . Mist covered mountain in background
Other end of red train, more mist covered mountain
The station at Luchon. Low building, fine awning on land side.
Looking though the gap along the valley.
Luchon. A nice run along the valley and up to the spa town. The mist is low so we'll have to imagine what it's like on a clear day.
The Tour stopped here this year and special train fares were available from all around.
#Luchon #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail
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Three trains in one shot
Montrejau Gourdan-Polignan. Change here for the newly reopened line to Luchon (Bagnères). #Speirgorm #OccitanieRail #Luchon
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