Iberian Rails

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Iberian Rails

Last Days of the Old Order Vol. 2

History

Author: Fred Matthews

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Language: English

Published by: Gotham Books

Published on: 27th December 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 112 pages

ISBN: 9798887757162


This is the second part of a survey of Iberian railways and tramways in 1963, when the author and his friend Larry Veysey made a long circular tour of the Peninsula. In 1963 the traditional tramways were large and busy, though already in the sights of modernizing bureaucrats. The broad-gauge national RENFE and most independent railways were still largely powered by steam; many passengers rode in wood-bodied coaches. Much of the railway scene was comparable to that of North America around 1910. Volume I covered the railways and tramways of Catalonia. Here we make a loop south along the Mediterranean Coast to Valencia and Alicante, inland to Granada, and north via Madrid and Leon to the Costa Verde along the bay of Biscay.

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