Re: Railways

Adrian wrote:
NM (never.opened@xxxxxxx) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

Spanish Talgo pendular have been running since the early sixties

A quick google suggests 1980 as an introduction date.

including copeing with a gague change at the French border, we
were still building steam engines then.

I s'pose March 1960 counts as the "early 60s" - which was when the
last British steam loco was brought into service...

Would that be Evening Star 90000F series freight loco?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A15849868

Thats the one, used to see it going through Hayes station on it's way west out of Paddington when I was on my way home from school,
beautiful piece of kit.

Indeed. But with two clear decades between it and the Talgo Pendular - despite your assertion that they were contemporaneous.

Nice bit of diversion, btw.

From the RENFE website,

12 de Noviembre

Primer viaje oficial directo de un tren entre Madrid y París sin transbordo de viajeros en la frontera. Lo realiza una composición de tren Talgo III RD arrastrado por la locomotora KM 3001, Virgen de Lourdes, que llega a París a través de la frontera de Hendaya.

12 of November

The first official direct train service from Madrid to Paris without passengers needing to transfer at the frontier. It was composed of train Talgo 111RD headed by locomotive KM3001, Routed via Lourdes the journey to Paris crossed the frontier at Henday.

That was the first with gague changing wheels.
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