Vuelva a Asturias - return to Asturias 🇪🇸
When I got back home after my last visit to Spain, in September last year, I totted up all what I'd seen and what I'd missed and resolved to go back in 2012 to rectify some of the misses. They were, in no particular order
- FEVE coal trains to Soto de Ribera and/or Guardo power stations
- Aluminium trains on the Gijon-Ferrol line west of Pravia
- La Maruca Yard in Aviles
- Iron Ore on the broad gauge Arcelor-Mittal (ex-ENSIDESA) railway between Aviles and Abono
- the line through the Nalon Valley between Pravia and Trubia
- the line between Pravia and Aviles
- the former Langreo Railway between Gijon and El Berron
- the Ponferrada and Villablino (metre gauge, operated by coal mining company, Coto Minero Cantábrico)
I managed some of these, I also contrived to miss a few so it looks like another visit is on the cards :-)
Read More- FEVE coal trains to Soto de Ribera and/or Guardo power stations
- Aluminium trains on the Gijon-Ferrol line west of Pravia
- La Maruca Yard in Aviles
- Iron Ore on the broad gauge Arcelor-Mittal (ex-ENSIDESA) railway between Aviles and Abono
- the line through the Nalon Valley between Pravia and Trubia
- the line between Pravia and Aviles
- the former Langreo Railway between Gijon and El Berron
- the Ponferrada and Villablino (metre gauge, operated by coal mining company, Coto Minero Cantábrico)
I managed some of these, I also contrived to miss a few so it looks like another visit is on the cards :-)
Trubia
Back to central Asturias and a shot of a San Esteban to Oviedo train crossing the Nalon at Trubia. This follows the old Norte's broad gauge branch to Trubia, which was turned over to FEVE in the 1990s, rebuilt and, as a result, the old winding VA route from Oviedo via Fuso de Reina was abandoned.
