Hauled with a Class 333 Diesel in original livery, the Corail service Madrid-Barcelona (via Zaragoza) is seen in Madrid-Chamartin, awaiting departure.
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In the early-80s, RENFE hired some Corail cars (A10rtu and B10tu) from SNCF, and used them on various flagship services, while Class 9000 and 10000 cars were being ordered. These Corail cars were mounted on CAF-GC3 broad-gauge bogies, very close to standard-gauge Y32 bogies used in France. These were later used under Class 10000 and Bc10x-9600 cars, together with Bc10ux couchettes cars of SNCF diagrammed on French-Iberic sleepers from 1985 to 1996.
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In those days, Corail services of RENFE ranked as good as "Electrotrenes" (fitted with Class 432 EMUs) and were subject to Supplemento B.
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Madrid-Zaragoza went fully under wires as late as September 1981. Hence the Class 333, to be replaced with a Class 269 in Zaragoza-El Portillo.
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April 1981.



<p>Photo by unknown author (Acknowledgements, anyway), from Tranvia.org


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