Class 597 (ex-9700) TER "Tren Español Rápido" DMU, seen on the "Mare Nostrum" (Portbou-Alicante) in a morning of the late-60s, somewhere close to Massanes (now Maçanet).
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Back then, Barcelona-Cerbère was the most modern line of RENFE: newly-electrified (1964) and fully double-tracked (1967), with long, welded new rails UIC 46 or 54, cleared for 140kph-87mph on half of its mileage...
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Late-60s.


Photo by Xavier Tomas (Euromed@tranvia.org) (Acknowledgements), from Tranvia.org

Posting and comment by P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr).