AVE-103.001 set of RENFE-AVE, seen at Hendaye, awaiting to be shipped to the RENFE Workshops in La Sagra.
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As ICE3M had not been cleared to run in France, AVE-103.001 ran on RFF tracks as a mere loco-hauled Freighter. This required to split the set and then to re-form it with end-cars coupled together, so as to couple conventional cars at both ends.
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Hendaye (Transit Area, Track 56).
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13th June 2005. 
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Photo by José Manuel Trigos (JMT@tranvia.org)(Acknowledgements).
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Posting and comment by P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr).