Spain - RENFE

My first visit to Spain, and my first holiday outside of the UK, was a family holiday to the Costa Brava resort of Lloret de Mar, in mid-80's.

I would have been about 7 or 8 at the time, and everything was a new experience, and provided some great memories; My first ever flight, from London Heathrow to Gerona (on an Iberia DC9 I think); A journey on a Spanish red bendy bus; The lovely sandy beaches; The unusual toilets with nothing but a hole in the ground... But what I do remember most were the trains. Mostly painted in a bright (in my mind) blue and yellow livery.

This first trip has turned into a facination for the country of Spain and more recently it's railways. I have returned to Spain a few times over the past 40 years and apart from my most recent trip, I regret having not taken very many railway photographs whilst there. Having searched around on the internet, it appears that Spanish railways, apart from those found on a few specialist websites, is a little photographed subject.

Therefore, I am very grateful that my father took a number of photographs on that very first holiday to Spain, and also on subsequent trips. Most of the photos have been scanned in from the original prints at 2400dpi, cleaned up in Photoshop and then reduced to 1600px landscape width for the internet, although the most recent ones were taken on a digital SLR.


Spanish Railways RENFE - Class 252 on a Talgo train to Barcelona Spanish Railways RENFE - Class 252 on a Talgo train at Barcelona-Sants station Spanish Railways RENFE - Class 269 on a steel coil train in Tarragona Spanish Railways RENFE - A pair of Class 269 locomotives in sidings at Tarragona Spanish Railways RENFE - Class 269 in Tarragona sidings Spanish Railways RENFE - Class 436 units outside Barcelona Terminus Spanish Railways RENFE - Class 436 and 440 units at Blanes Spanish Railways RENFE - Interior view of Barcelona Terminus with Class 269 locomotives and Class 440 units in attendance Spanish Railways RENFE - Class 440 unit arriving at Blanes Spanish Railways RENFE - Class 269 in MilRayas livery arriving at Barcelona Terminus with an intermodal freight Spanish Railways RENFE - Class 269's at the buffer stops in Barcelona Terminus Spanish Railways RENFE - Class 444 at Barcelona Sants station Spanish Railways RENFE - JJPD bogie wagons in the sidings at Blanes station Spanish Railways RENFE - A view of Barcelona Terminus with a Class 269 in Estrella livery Spanish Railways RENFE - Class 470 at Tarragona railway station