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Spain - Region of Alicante - April / May 2007



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Region of Alicante 
2007-2008
Updated 31.1.2008
Summary

Back to the FGV, this time a week in Alicante from 23rd to 27th of April 2007, for last trials with the aotumatic train protection system ZSI 127 between Alicante (Puerta del Mar) and La Creueta, (Including the installation of the train equipment on units type 4200) before the definitive taking in service.

23-24.4.2007
Night ride
24.4
Hunting the FGV!
24.4
Alicante main station (Renfe)
25.4:
Installation of material and night trials

26.4:
FGV and Renfe in the evening
27.4:
Sh... weather!
and 21st to 23rd of May, still for installation and trials:

21.5:
Night ride
22.5:
Poble Espanyol - Alicante and back
23.5:
Engine shed La Marina
And a pair of short flights:

23-24 of October
23-24 of January 2008


Night 23rd to 24th of April: Test run
Night test run between Alicante (depot of La Marina) and La Creueta with the unit UT 4103, with control of the telegrams from the ZSI 127 balises, and trial with automatic brakings between Venta Lanusa and Vila-Joiosa. In Poble Espanyol, crossing with the draisine SKL 25.2.059, bought second-hand from the german railways DBAG and modified for metre-gauge..

SKL 25.2.059, Poble Espanyol
La Vila-Joiosa
UT 4103, La Creueta

UT 4103, Poble Espanyol
UT 4203 + 4103, La Marina

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24 April: Hunting the FGV!

UT 4102, Costablanca
UT 4106, Costablanca
UT 4102, Costablanca
UT 4203, Carrabiners

UT 4106, Carrabiners
UT 4102, Carrabiners
UT 2307+4102, El Campello
UT 2310, El Campello

UT 2506, El Campello
UT 4203, El Campello
UT 2506, La Creueta
UT 2501, La Creueta

UT 2510, La Creueta
UT 2510+2508, El Campello
UT 4102, El Campello
UT 4102, Puerta del Mar

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24 April: Alicante main station (Renfe)
It looks that the regulations didn't change much since I spent 4 months in Valencia in 2005: The authorisation is still absolutely necessary to take pictures, and it's strictly forbidden to photograph the "sensible" zones. Instead, it seems thet the fact that big lots of people cross the tracks everywhere (without seeking much attention to the trains) doesn't interest anybody...

592.114-3
470.156-1
334.002-3, 592.069-9
592.114-3

252.039-3
592.109-3
592.212-5
252.061-7

333.106-3
252.039-3
333.106-3
252.039-3

592.109-3
269.418-0
252.039-3
592.130-9

Particular situation in Alicante: As the trains going in direction south change the direction at the station Alicante - Sant Gabriel, all trains in direction Murcia leave the station Alicante pushed by the engine in the rear. For this reason, the engine are changed at the end of the tracks in Alicante main (who is also a terminal station).

Example:
334.002-3, who will pull the train from Alicante, goes to the end of track 3:
The train from Madrid comes on track 3 with engine 252.053-4, who leaves over track 2:
334.002-3 is coupled in replacement of 252.053-4:
and it starts pushing the train in direction of Murcia:

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25 April: Installation of material and night trials:
Morning, installation of ZSI 127 on the units 4212 and 4213 at the main workshops of Poble Espanyol...

UT 3806
UT 4210 + 3803
UT 4213
 UT 4212

UT 4212		 UT 4212
UT 4212
UT 4212

and night, trial in the depot. The yellow lights give a very particular ambiance.

UT 4213
UT 4213
UT 4202 + 4201
UT 4202 + 4201

UT 4212
UT 4213
UT 4213

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26. April
After the day working in the hotel room, a little of fresh air in the evening. Alas, the sky got more and more dark...
FGV

UT 4102, Condomina
UT 4102, Lucentum
UT 4105, Lucentum
UT 4102, Passeig de Gomiz
Renfe

333.106-3
592.110-1
252.065-8
333.106-3

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27. Avril: Sh... weather...!

UT 2508, El Campello
UT 4106, El Campello
UT 2507, El Campello
UT 2508, La Vila-Joiosa

UT 2310 + 2311, La Vila-Joiosa
UT 2311, La Creueta
UT 2311, La Creueta
UT 2506, La Creueta

UT 2506, El Campello
UT 4106, El Campello
UT 4104, Muchavista
UT 4104, La Marina

UT 4102, La Marina		 And short after this last picture:

Back to the hotel, packing the luggage, transfert to the airport and direct flight Alicante - Zürich.

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21. May: Nachtausflug...
Back to Alicante 3 weeks later to solve some last problems. The test run with unit UT 4103 to La Creueta, starting at 23.00pm, was already finished short after Poble Espanyol because of a problem with the catenary...

UT 4106
UT 4210 / 4214

Exit of the depot
UT 4103, Poble Espanyol

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22 May: Poble Espanyol - Alicante - Poble Espanyol
Morning, installation of ZSI 127 on unit 4214 at the workshops of Poble Espanyol, and a quick go-and-back to El Campello to control a detail on the tracks...

UT 4214
UT 4105
El Campello, UT 2307 / 2310

UT 4212 + 4213
UT 4101

...and then a visit to the main station, with an underway stop at the station "Mercado", provisory terminus of the new line who will in the future be prolongated as far as the main station...

UT 4102, Mercado

252.058-3
592.063-2
333.103-0

333.103-0
252.021-1
592.064-0
592.066-5

592.065-7
592.010-3
592.009-5
592.021-0

...and in the evening braking tests with UT 4214

UT 4212 + 4213



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23 May: Engine shed of La Marina

UT 2506
"Montgó" 1032

"Montgó" 1032
CC-107

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24-25 of Octobre: Commissioning of Isleta - Costablanca
But why is the weather always covered each time I come to Alicante...?
24.10, Naciones (Tram 4)

UT 4214
La Marina

UT 2502
UT 4211
"Ifach" 1030 + "Montgó" 1032
Alicante (Renfe)

101.105-5
252.060-9
252.013-8 + 252.060-9
319.402-4 + 319.212-7

334.012-2
334.004-9 + 592.010-3
Mercado

UT 4202
25.10, Benidorm Hospital Vila-Joiosa

UT 2310
UT 2510

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23-24 of January 2008: Commissioning of Pueblo Español - Calapiteres
This time, not the weather was problematic, but my health: I had influenza, and so when I was not on a trial run I stayed most of the time in my hotel room. It was the very first time I thank I would better have stayed in the office (or better in my bed) instead of flying to Spain!

As my camera was in reparation, I loaned my son's own one, so the particular format of the pictures.

23.1, Pueblo Español

UT 4106
24.1, Naciones

UT 4211, "Generalitat Valenciana"
La Marina

UT 4211
1022 "Benacantil"
1032 "Montgó" + 1030 "Ifach"
1030 "Ifach" +1032 "Montgó"

1032 "Montgó"
ZZ-201
1022 "Benacantil"

UT 4213
CC-107
UT 2310
UT 4213
Albufereta

UT 4210
UT 4203 "Vacunate!"
UT 4211, "Generalitat Valenciana"
And so, I sit with my influenza in the tramway 4203 "Vacunate!", or in spanish "Don't get caught by influenza, vaccine yourself!". It was perhaps a little too late for me...

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