Madrid-Atocha station, seen on its very last day of pre-AVE life.
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Until its very end, this station retained its Railway Museum aspect, with old ex-MZA signalling.
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One can notice a Class 321, in original livery.
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The Class 352 Talgo Diesel is diagrammed on the Madrid-Almeria/Granada service, leaving between 02.00pm and 03.00pm. This loco got new, smaller, yet debatable front glasses...
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The pic was taken from a point now forming part of the standard-gauge tracks of Puerta de Atocha.
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In the evening of that day, this station was closed in order to be rebuilt (almost) from scratch as Puerta de Atocha, under the Madrid-Sevilla HSL project.
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24th September 1988.



Photo by Guillermo González Martín (ggm@tranvia.org) (Acknowledgements), from Tranvia.org.


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