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 the Class 440, still in original livery, while Class 8000 cars had been reliveried to the "Estrella" standards.
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One can also see the newly-built Atocha-Cercanias station (for commuter traffic), on the right.
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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.


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