Snow and Cognac in 1971

This story was written for general audiences, but it should interest rail travelers. The whole trip went Berlin > Frankfurt > Paris > Nimes > Barcelona > Valencia > Alicante > Madrid and then I covered the segment described in the linked article.

https://www.berlin1969.com/stories-geschichte/pyrenees-crossing/
There is other rail material in the Documents and Stories sections of the website:

https://www.berlin1969.com

Thank you—what a wonderful story, beautifully written —and the pictures are beautiful, too.

Mystic River Dragon said:

Thank you—what a wonderful story, beautifully written —and the pictures are beautiful, too.

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Thank you! The photos go back to the time when each click of the Instamatic shutter cost money, and as the article said, I was low on film. It was sort of scary, thinking that I might miss something when I ran out of exposures.

Wow, you remind me of my high school Europe trip, where I went through five 24 exposure rolls of film in 5 countries, one per country. Unlike most of my colleagues, I mostly took pictures of the other students participating in activities, and bought a ton of postcards. I figured the postcard people could take much better pictures than I could. I bought a roll of postcard stamps in each country, wrote short happy notes to relatives, under the condition that they return all the postcards to me after the trip for a scrapbook.

Canfranc Station has been restored and put to hotel use. Discussions about restoration of the route on the French side continue. It sounds pie in the sky - but so did the station restoratio.

JontyMort said:

Canfranc Station has been restored and put to hotel use. Discussions about restoration of the route on the French side continue. It sounds pie in the sky - but so did the station restoration.

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In the meantime the service on SNCF was cut back further/farther down the hill. I have seen an item about local folks restoring the Bedous station.

Great story! Thanks for sharing.