Chris Tarrant Extreme Railway Journeys "Canfranc"
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- In this episode, Chris embarks on a thousand mile journey across Spain’s complex railway system, from Gibraltar in the far south to Bermio on the north coast, deep in Basque Country. Travelling on an extraordinary range of different trains and types of track, he’s on a mission to find out how Spanish railways evolved from some of the most backward in Europe to the most advanced and innovative in the World, through one and a half centuries of stormy history, including the Civil War and four dark decades of the Franco dictatorship.
This film premieres on Channel 5 in the UK in January 2019.
Distributed worldwide by Banijay Rights (UK).
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Tarrant has missed a very important detail. The reason the Spanish insisted on a gauge change was that they didn't trust the French: they wanted to be sure an invading army couldn't use the railways. I think the site of Canfranc was even chosen because the Spanish military wanted to be able to bombard it from the mountains if the French invaded.
The station building has now been renovated and the station replaced with financial help from the EU.
Nice little piece of history there. Thank you
For those of you that have never seen this building you are missing something truly magnificent. It is pure beauty. We saw it in June 2021. Its now due to be a hotel possibly by next year. What a way to spend a deluxe weekend. Long live Canfranc.
And youcl can still go there by train
@@markdebruyn1212 only on the spanish side but they are looking at the french section so fingers crossed.
@@RobertSmith-cv1cu I know that
It is fitting indeed to call this fascinating place the Titanic of the Pyrenees. This great building is like a huge victorian ship that would have run aground in the middle of nowhere, or in a majestic scenery it doesn't quite belong to. For me, it is a symbol for all the noble aspirations of the twentieth century that ultimately went to waste, shattered by war, nationalism, or sheer entropy. Well worth a visit at any rate.
I wouldn't describe it better. You are totally right, that's the sort of feeling I get from it: How can this marvelously aristocratic building be stuck up in the middle of nowhere? It's just unreal. I get the same feeling with Saint Petersbourg and Petra... Weird and mystic
@@soroteca71 That's it. I wonder if J.G Ballard knew the place. He would have loved it, I'm sure. No doubt he would have made it the backdrop of one of his surreal and prophetic stories.
Canfranc international railway station. An awesome building, abandoned in 1970. Old abandoned rolling stock
And yet you can still go there by train
The irony being that this show was produced by Whitworth Media Ltd.
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Hope it would be reopened...
It would be but Spain is quite corrupt, i am from the zone, Canfranc is a touristy resort in the Pyrinees with more than 300000 internacional tourists, it is very near si resorts
@@hermenegildoc3933 Yes, but that's not the problem. The problem is the difference in the construction of the train tracks (France used one type and Spain another one) and it will be expensive change all of them.
@@javierxhr that's not the problem at all.
The different gauges always existed at canfranc. People just changed train.
The line just fell out of use.
Although June 2020 it looks like the station will be bought back into use.
@@iainyoung6878 no problem. today we have "Automatic Track Gauge Changeover Systems". ie trains that can cope with different gauges without having to get off.
It is: the hotel is now renovated and the station has been moved slightly and rebuilt:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfranc_International_railway_station#/media/File:Canfranc_new_and_old_station_April_2021.jpg
Ta - A great production but extremely sad with it's WW2 connection with the Jew's escape from bloody Hitler!!