Vintage Electric - French style!

When the Christmas Quiz is out of the way, I will upload some more pictures to my Fotopic site from some of my European rail travels, when I was young enough to get an Inter-rail pass!

One of my favourite lines runs from Villefranche-Vernet-Les-Bains to Latour De Carol in the French Pyrenees. It was built as an electric railway in 1903. The third-rail system was used. The original trains are (just) still running, ableit heavily modernised. The motors and compressors etc are original, all locally repaired.

La Train Jaune...

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Villefranche-VLB station. Note the maintenence depot to the right

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Villefranche - VLB station - train for Latour de Carol

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One of the intermediate stations.

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Arrival at Latour de Carol, on the Spanish border.

Click here for a map of the railways of the Pyrenees.

All pictures taken in June 1990.

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