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Canfranc International Station---Abandoned in the Spanish Pyrenees in May 2018.
This place ia a complete time-capsule as it was abandoned overnight in 1970 after a railway derailment on the french side of 8-km long Samport Tunnel destroyed a large girder bridge thus cutting of the through route between France and Spain.The french railway company elected not to rebuild the destroyed bridge on cost grounds and so this huge station at Canfranc where the two different track gauge systems met for passenger and freight interchanges became un-necessary and was simply left to decay.A single platform remains for a limited DMU service to here from Zaragoza.The rest of the station including a loco depot,multiple platforms and acres of sidings still containing quite a few pieces of rolling stock was simply left.Today nearly 50 years later most of this area remains as it was in 1970.A visit here is a definite candidate for any rail enthusiasts Bucket List!
By the summer of 2021 all the dereliction on this site has been cleared away and a new Station constructed using the old 'Transfer' Good Sheds as the basis for a new station.Most of the old carriages and stock are now stored in the old Locomotive Roundhouse to the south of the Station.The main Buildings are now renovated and are being turned into a luxury resort-type Hotel Plans are now going ahead to re-open the currently closed line between France (Bedious) and Spain (Canfranc) through the Samport Tunnel as a major freight and passenger route,Completion date by possibly mid 2025.
All pictures in this Gallery taken with a small 'point and shoot' pocket sized Fuji-Finepix AV135 12 m pixels.