CANFRANC REVIVAL
Aug 07, 2021
2 minutes
by Mike Bent
n March 27 1970 SNCF closed the railway which ascends from Oloron Ste. Marie to Canfranc, following the derailment of a runaway freight train near the Pont d’Estanguet, to the south of Bedous. Thus ended the first `life’ of the central Pyrenean railway, which had been completed only four decades earlier, inaugurated on July 11 1928. With traffic, both freight and passenger,
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