Castilla y Leon, Spain, 2015

Thomas Kautzor reports on a December 2015 visit.

See also from the same visit:

• CIFVM La Poveda

• Alcazar de San Juan Railway and Steam Relics

• Hoyo de Manzanares and Madrid Railway Relics

Because there are no EasyJet flights on Tuesdays from Geneva to Madrid and return, I had an extra day to spare and decided to drive up to Ponferrada, checking out various preserved locomotives on the way.

Toro: plinthed in front of the sugar factory next to the railway station is Azucarera de Madrid 0-6-0 102 (600mm, Jung 605/1902):

3314: RENFE 030-2264 (Schneider 563/1860, ex MZA 204) at Arevalo;

The railway museum at Ponferrada is only open on weekends, but I was able to see Ponferrada-Villablino (PV) 2-6-2T 8 (Baldwin 52682/1919) at the old power plant turned Energy Museum, the little OK 4683/1911 (600mm) plinthed in front of the “La Maquina” shopping center..

 There are nine PV locomotives dumped behind the Lidl supermarket (Baldwin 2-6-2T 1/2/4/7/10, MACOSA 2-6-0+4T 13/16 and Krauss 2-6-0+4T 17/18)

Hulleras de Turon/HUNOSA 0-6-0T 15 (600mm, AHV 0/1942) is plinthed in unrestored condition in a small park near the railway station at Astorga and AHV 0-4-0T 59 (1000mm, AHV/Borsig 1946) plinthed in front of the old RENFE station at Benavente:

3418 & 3422: FC Valladolid – Medina de Rioseco 0-6-0T 2 (St. Leonard 1680/1910) plinthed in a small park opposite the bus station at Medina de Rioseco. Between 1930 and 1969 it was in industrial use with Hullera Vasco Leonesa;

FC Valladolid – Medina de Rioseco 0-4-0T 6 (Kerr Stuart 3251/1885) in a park at Valladolid and RENFE 0-4-0Tram E1 (Cockerill 1720/1892, ex NORTE 01) at the RENFE workshops in Valladolid;

An incomplete Instalaciones Industriales, Bilbao steam roller is on display in front of scrap dealer Ciriaco Bayon e Hijos, CB, at Cuéllar (just off the traffic circle off the northwestern exit from the A-601 motorway), SE of Valladolid.

A private owner has set up a narrow gauge railway in an old factory in the Rio Tajuña valley below the town of Brihuega (beyond Guadalajara). The locomotive which I photographed over the perimeter wall is a Plymouth and the cars are built on WW1 Péchôt flat cars which came from the closed “Petit Train de la Côte d’Or (APTCO)” outside Dijon, in France.