Canfranc International railway station (Spanish: Estación Internacional de Canfranc) is a former international railway station in the village of Canfranc in the Spanish Pyrenees. The station, which was opened during July 1928, was constructed on a grand scale to serve as a major hub for cross-border railway traffic. Its main building incorporates elaborate Beaux-Arts architecture, featuring 365 windows and 156 doors, along a length of 240 metres (790 ft). The station experienced numerous highs and lows, services having been temporarily interrupted by the intentional sealing of the Somport tunnel during the Spanish Civil War, while being extensively used by international traffic during the Second World War as the “Casablanca in the Pyrenees”. The postwar era brought a period of stability and prosperity for the station and the line, although officials became increasingly pessimistic for its future during the 1960s. International services came to an abrupt end during 1970 following a train derailment that damaged a key bridge in France.
The station building in July 2015
Canfranc station has remained open despite the international line’s curtailment in 1970, but is served only by a handful of trains from the Spanish side alone. It has experienced a major decline and neglect, resulting in much of the site becoming derelict. The local government has ambitions to reopen the international line and to redevelop the station, which would involve the renovation of the existing station building for use as a hotel and its replacement by a new facility. In February 2020, funding for both the relaunch of international services and the station’s rehabilitation was made available by the European Union.
I visited this place in April 2022, and of course made a video about it, how it is at it’s current state. This includes a train review of the trains between Canfranc & Zaragoza and a station review of the main railway station of Zaragoza, what is Zaragoza Delicias.
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00:00 Introduction
01:50 Canfranc International railway station (old & new railway station)
10:28 Zaragoza-Delicias railway station review
12:30 Trains between Zaragoza & Canfranc
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16:11 Views from the train between Zaragoza & Canfranc
18:56 End of the video
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