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Posted 07 September 2020 - 02:01 AM

Hi everybody.

In this topic I'll post some screenshots of the Sud-Express consists over the years, has seen in Portugal with Portuguese traction.
This was the elite train that CIWL had connecting Lisbon to Paris. Sometimes I will also post some "Imigrant" trains that also made the Paris-Lisbon connection but remained at Irun or Henday, at the border of Spain to France.

Sud-Express entering Lisbon-S Apolonia in June 1963
https://i.ibb.co/V9TH2bF/2500-sud-jun63.jpg

Sud Express as seen in Beira Alta on its way to Lisbon, in 1956 with a CP1300 Whitcomb locomotive providing traction.
https://i.ibb.co/SXDTK7J/1300-sud1956-Pecurto.jpg

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Posted 07 September 2020 - 07:26 AM

CP 2600 traction comming from Pampilhosa to Lisbon with train 306 "Sud-Express", seen here at Seiça-Ourem, on July 1976.
https://i.ibb.co/86FmDvV/Open-Rails-2020-09-07-03-06-02.png


An "Imigrants", train 312, at Pampilhosa, after traction change from diesel to electric, during the summer of 1994.
https://i.ibb.co/bNKLFts/Open-Rails-2020-09-07-04-24-47.png

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Posted 07 September 2020 - 09:43 AM

And two aspects of the same consist from 1975, passing at Formoselha, northbound.
https://i.ibb.co/Dr3mw0n/Open-Rails-2020-09-07-06-41-01.png
https://i.ibb.co/5hdksW2/Open-Rails-2020-09-07-06-41-22.png

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Posted 07 September 2020 - 10:20 AM

Northbound "Imigrants" train nº311 in the summer of 1992 with a rare double traction for the 820t and 480m long train, with Bombardier Cp1960 class at Pampilhosa, after changing electric traction.
It's all the way up from here until the border with Spain at Vilar Formoso/Fuentes de Oñoro.
https://i.ibb.co/2tR75Ys/Open-Rails-2020-09-07-07-13-48.png

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Posted 21 December 2020 - 06:52 AM

Nice pics, Aldarion, I liked very much.
The Sudexpress since 1887 was a mythic train which I always admired.
I think I should take and upload some pic of this train between Miranda de Ebro and Ávila with a Confederation 2-4-2, the most powerful Spanish steam locomotive, that could be epic.
Obrigado!

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