AVE-103 (103.001) set of RENFE-AVE.
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This is the Turista-class car with facilities for disabled persons (103.500), manufactured by the RENFE-MIT Workshops in Valladolid in Summer 2004 (along with Cafeteria-car 103.401), just before Siemens broke off with Alstom-CAF.
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This car will be reformed with others, which are reportedly to be manufactured in Valladolid, too, by a joint subsidiary of RENFE and Siemens.
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It will most probably have been the only opportunity to spot AVE-103 stock in AVE livery, as the whole fleet of RENFE is to get a new livery, in line with the corporate identity adopted in late-2004...
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Valladolid.
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2004.
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Photo by Mario Rodríguez Ruiz (luzero@wanadoo.es)(Acknowledgements).
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Posting and comment by P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr).