Talgo 193/2 (Badajoz-Madrid Puerta de Atocha), seen upon reversal at Plasencia, miles away from Geneva, which these III-RD cars would originally serve..
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This is the only domestic service diagrammed with III-RD stock. 
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One can notice that this formation is very short (TG2z+TA2+TC2+TB2+TG2), with just 17 seats in Preferente and 75 in Turista.
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Also obvious is the poor track condition, as put in evidence by the articulation profile...
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The author had himself been travelling on that Train from Merida, and reported that it had taken some 45min to run on the chord (16km-10mi) from Mirabel, on the Badajoz-Madrid line, owing to very questionable track condition...
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Plasencia.
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12th January 2005, shortly before 06pm.
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Photo by José Carde (jchcarde@hotmail.com) (Acknowledgements).
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Posting and comment by P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)