Catalonia Railway Museum

Spain has been avery popular holiday destination for the British for many years, especially since the death of Franco and our joining the EEC. Many Brits have made it their home, especially on retirement and the most popular place in the north must be Catalonia on the Mediterranean coast, how this will change after Brexit nobody knows. Located at the eastern end of the Pyrenees it covers the areas of Girona, Lleida, Tarragona and Barcelona but perhaps it is more famous for the renowned Costa Brava.

If you Google ‘Spanish Railway Museum’, amongst others will appear, but not so obvious unless you delve considerably deeper is the real hidden gem at (English web site is presently under construction) the Catalonia Railway Museum in Vilanova i la Geltru, located immediately outside the station. Forty-five kilometres to the south of Barcelona on the Mediterranean coast, in this unassuming town, is one of Europe’s largest collections of steam locomotives that is