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.
In those days, Corail services of RENFE ranked as good as "Electrotrenes" (fitted with Class 432 EMUs) and were subject to Supplemento B.
The Barcelona-Gijón was later fitted back with a Class 432, then converted into a Diurno with Class 9000 cars and through cars to Galicia.
In 2004, Talgo III stock is diagrammed on this service, now in the bottomline of RENFE-GL.
This pic was taken from a point where the cut-and-cover for the Madrid-Lerida-Barcelona was bored in 2000-2002.
Late-1981.
Photo by Virutillo (virutillo@tranvia.org) (Acknowledgements), from Tranvia.org Posting and comment by P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr)