Until 2000, "refuerzos" (i.e. extra cars) with conventional rolling-stock were common use on daytime Talgo services of RENFE.

This is the Alicante-Madrid-Vigo/A Coruña Talgo, seen in the Christmas peak (1998/1999), leaving Alacant-Terminal (ex Alicant-Término), with 5 extra Class 10000 cars, located between the loco and the regular Talgo sets.

Alacant-Terminal. 09th January 1999. Photo by Manuel Peña (alc@tranvia.org) (Acknowledgementsfrom Tranvia.org Posting and comment by P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)