Train – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

How the Ferrocarril de Sóller, Mallorca acquired an 80-year-old train, let it rust, and sold it for scrap

Over at treneando, via Xabier Cabezón. From press reports you might believe that the entire island administration is composed of thieves, but there are idiots as well. Other historic Spanish train news: the Friends of the Basque Railway Museum have been expelled from the foundation responsible for the project for suggesting that the new director…

Farewell, (Catalan) Talgo

One of 20th century Spain’s great engineering achievements disappears as it drove: with nary a whisper.

Talgo III in Granada, by Falk2 [GFDL (<a href=

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The right and the wrong type of snow, according to Avicenna, Aristotle and Plutarch

With an excerpt from a plea for more state funding by the Bostonian Western Rail-road, in which we are given to understand that snow is not necessarily a bad thing.

Why I’m called Trevor

Or, rather, how my grandfather seems to have been named after a minor railway station.

Seville “metro” about to commence operations?

Du Guesclin expresses his doubts re this and other project objectives.

Blanes-Ma?

Renfe’s public information system at plaza Cataluña station can’t cope with the cedilla in Maçanet.

Scum

Public morality on the train to Vilafranca.