Hauled with a Class 269 in original livery, the Corail service "Valencia Expreso" Valencia-Cerbère is seen between Villajuiga and LLansá (now LLançà), approaching its destination, in some hot summer late-afternoon...
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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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"Valencia Expreso" ran as a relief service for the Talgo "Mare Nostrum", with extensions to Alicante or Madrid (via Cuenca).



<p>Photo by Ricard Ricón Serra (ricard_ricon&#064;hotmail.com) (Acknowledgements), from Tranvia.org


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