Giants Built for Overnight Trains Where Speed Not First Consideration
Herald Express; Torquay (UK) › April 10, 2010
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IT WAS RENFE electric engine No.7507 that took us on from Avila to Madrid on the evening of May 1, 1963, where we found our hotel had trams passing the door.
Next morning, we called in at the Atocha terminus of the erstwhile Madrid, Zaragoza and Alicante Railway, finding one of their modern 4-8-2s, No.241-2222, at the head of an express to Barcelona.See the full content of this document
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Giants Built for Overnight Trains Where Speed Not First Consideration
This was one of a series of 57 locomotives built between 1944 and 1957, by La Maquinista Terrestre y Maritima, Barcelona, usually s...
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