- Time of past OR future Camino
- Francés x 5, Le Puy x 2, Arles, Tours, Norte, Madrid, Via de la Plata, Portuguese, Primitivo
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I just adore this station.Nightfall at Oriente Station in Lisbon (the same as the second photo in Faye's post above) en route to Madrid and then Oviedo for the Primitivo:
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I just adore this station.
But I also love that the station in Bordeaux had a fabulous patisserie... and I had a pretty nice lunch on a layover at Valladolid, actually. Madrid station seemed reminiscent of Montreal’s Gare Centrale so I didn’t photograph it. I wonder if they had the same architect...
Sadly, no. The other station. 1960’s brutalist. I *wish* I had been going from Atocha.Are you referring to Madrid Atocha? Gorgeous indeed.
I once fought with a cash machine in France during the general strikes of 2003, unable to get my money out. The machine kept telling me to contact my home branch.Sitting outside Bayonne station waiting for a train to SJPP, which would never arrive , owing to a general strike. Travelled instead an a very full replacement bus.
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When I arrived at Bilbao station, early after sunrise, I was so pleasantly surprised to see this Window!The minute I saw your post, Sao Bento sprang to mind! There are loads of stations along the camino... I guess. Abando, in Bilbao, would be a good one, not my photo, but this gives you an idea, the stained glass reminds me of the province parliament in Gernika
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During one walk we detoured to Pau to meet up with some friends who were walking part of the way with us. We intended to catch the train from there to Bordeaux and on to SJPDP. Arrived at the station, but alas, the ticket machine would not accept our overseas credit cards. A kind woman offered to buy them on her local credit card, and we paid her the cash. Great, thank you. She left. Then the station announcement - no trains due to a strike. All tickets purchased that day would be automatically refunded to the credit cards of purchase....I once fought with a cash machine in France during the general strikes of 2003, unable to get my money out. The machine kept telling me to contact my home branch.
Night train/ Paris to Bayonne
photo taken October 14, 2014
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I often took the night sleeper from Paris/ Austerlitz to Bayonne. Since I bought the senior ticket well in advance on line the 30 euros price was great for a voyage of roughly 1000 mm. However it was hardly the Orient Express! Five other women plus baggage were squeezed in the cabin but luckily I had requested a bottom bunk; sleep passed in relative comfort.
Night train/ Paris to Bayonne
I often took the night sleeper from Paris/ Austerlitz to Bayonne. Since I bought the senior ticket well in advance on line the 30 euros price was great for a voyage of roughly 1000 km.
Same here @Kanga. 2013 top bunk after long haul from Oz. I didn’t sleep a wink. Fear of falling ‘off the shelf’ and not getting off at right stop. I guess we both survivedYes, I've experienced this too - but I did not sleep, and it was after an exhausting flight from Australia! Never again.
Lisbon is one of my favourite cities and I remember the stations well, especially going North. Sintra and Ericeira are two places high on my memory list. Local buses and trains are always good finds!In another thread @SabineP posted a photo of Antwerp railway station. It reminded me of all the stations I’ve passed through on the way to or from walking a camino. Some very beautiful. I always find them interesting, even the pedestrian ones.
At the end of my very first camino, in 2001, I had a week left before my flight home and I went to the station at SDC with the intention of taking the first train out, regardless of where it was heading - feeling serendipitous and completely free. It went north, and I then took the narrow gauge train that did a milk run along the north coast. Such fun.
Anyway, as we are all enjoying trawling through our photos in the absence of being able to actually walk a camino, I thought it might be interesting to post a few photos of railway stations or experiences connected to our camino journeys.
Here is my first one - Lisbon
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indeed, how did I not think about that one??? Getting off the train after the scenic route on a late afternoon in September, only the engineer and myself on board, the blue greyish light... it felt like I had travelled in time. Amazin place! So old, so empty, so beautiful! The French side of the station, on the back, is in worse condition, but also remarkableSurely someone will have a picture of Canfranc. I think my phone must have died from Somport down to Jaca, because I don’t have any pictures of that glorious walk!
Sao Benton Station is beautiful indeed!Here are a couple of bad photos. I am about the worlds worst. They are taken from the Porto train station. Met my fantastic older daughter in Porto after my Nov/Dec 2019 Camino Frances. Not very good but pretty similar to the Lisbon train station. Across the street from our hotel there was a tile mural very similar to the train staition in color and design. I saw quite a few tile murals all over Porto like that. If memory serves me correctly from walking from Lisbon in 2017 this style is seen throughout Portugal.
The last photo is not my photo but it is the albergue in Deba on the Camino Norte. It is an old train station. I didn't stay there as I got to Deba about 11:00AM. There was a detour because of bridge construction. I went into the tourist office to ask about the route and two old friends of mine who I had not seen in about 15 years were in the office too. They were walking part of the Norte and were taking a day off in Deba. We had a wonderful lunch and I was on my way!
Isn't this Porto?In another thread @SabineP posted a photo of Antwerp railway station. It reminded me of all the stations I’ve passed through on the way to or from walking a camino. Some very beautiful. I always find them interesting, even the pedestrian ones.
At the end of my very first camino, in 2001, I had a week left before my flight home and I went to the station at SDC with the intention of taking the first train out, regardless of where it was heading - feeling serendipitous and completely free. It went north, and I then took the narrow gauge train that did a milk run along the north coast. Such fun.
Anyway, as we are all enjoying trawling through our photos in the absence of being able to actually walk a camino, I thought it might be interesting to post a few photos of railway stations or experiences connected to our camino journeys.
Here is my first one - Lisbon
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Cute! It is the only view of the SJPP station most of us ever get!
Yes, I think you are right. I’ll edit my original text. Although looking at the sequence of my photos I am now confused!Isn't this Porto?
Heaven indeed... I scooted round the site and went in from the rear!Surely someone will have a picture of Canfranc. I think my phone must have died from Somport down to Jaca, because I don’t have any pictures of that glorious walk!
I hope someday the money and enthusiasm can be found to restore it.
efdoucette,Love this thread. Okay, 3 pictures
1. Bordeaux, where I connected. 2011 my very first Camino and my very first experience with European train travel (except the Charles De Gaulle in Paris where I boarded). Travelling solo, I was so excited.
2. The train from Bordeaux to Bayonne broke down, I shared a car with these 4 strangers, we became friends, my first "Camino" family. The lady in front spoke french and guided us through the ordeal.
3. An old joke I had to thrown in, and we thought cell phones were isolating us, haha.
Good for you Margaret, squeaky wheel gets the grease so they say.efdoucette,
Re.your point 2.
This happened to me in 2010. The TGV train was late arriving in Bayonne so three other pilgrims and I missed the connecting TER train to Saint Jean Pied de Port.
I led them all to the Station Master's office and explained.
The Station Master was able to produce and pay for a taxi which took us immediately on our way! Thus we arrived in SJPdP before the next TER would have left Bayonne. ...Never understimate a powerchat.
The colorful train (above) reminds me of this one - the Portuguese train from Vigo to Campanha station in Porto.At Ponferrada Station, about to take the tourist train along the Invierno route to Monforte in May 2019.
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If you are asking about the bridge from Canfranc to France. There are long sections of the track in major disrepair and likely never to be opened. I walked part of the route a few years ago and portions of the rails had been washed away into the river below.Has the collapsed bridge on the French side been rebuilt?..
Same here @Kanga. 2013 top bunk after long haul from Oz. I didn’t sleep a wink. Fear of falling ‘off the shelf’ and not getting off at right stop. I guess we both survived
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Ha Sabine, not at all, yours are good also. Yes, Oviedo is a lovely station and i really like that elevated entrance it provides to the city itselfYes you were able to make much better pics than mine from the same station in post #2.
Gorgeous place!
Yes, do, it is a lovely walk over the hill.Cercedilla station - 26 March 2018
walking the Camino de Madrid ...in spring ...
between Cercedilla and Segovia , we were advised it wasn’t walkable due to snow covering the pass - El puerto de la Fuenfría ...(1.796m altitude) . so the option was to train it from Cercedilla to Segovia. Maybe I’ll squeeze that section in another time I’ve got some spare time. I was really looking forward to it.
I was supposed to take a bus from Madrid airport to Oviedo in April 2020 to complete the Norte.Ha Sabine, not at all, yours are good also. Yes, Oviedo is a lovely station and i really like that elevated entrance it provides to the city itself
I am sursprised to see no photos of the old loco in the front of Santiago de Compostela rail station?
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My happy memories of rail travel on the Camino start with a short trip from SdC to Ourense for a trial week of De Plata when I first learned of the difference between the High Speed service and the local stopping trains.
The other was a Del Norte trip after flying into Asturias-Oviedo airport (and simply walking off the airport almost straight onto the camino. I thought that I had overestimated by performance and wanted to leapfrog a bit of the Del Norte path - so climbed up the hill to Soto de Luina station and waited for the train. No one at the station, and no machine to be able to buy a ticket. The station was a quaint request stop, it arrived on time. There was no conductor on the train. I travelled to La Caridad, which was also a request stop, also without staff. And so, try as I might, I couldn't pay for my almost 2 hour long journey.
Therefore this little rail service gets my highest praise - the best value for money ever.
(I gave my unpaid fare to charity later)
These locomotives look the same! Are they the same?A locomotive outside Ourense station.
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I believe that Dawsie's picture is of the same loco, type 240-2072, outside Ourense station.These locomotives look the same! Are they the same?
I wouldn't mind if the little white train used the square as a station - a place to make a brief stop allow passengers to board or alight. But it treats it like a depot or perhaps an advertising billboard for itself. And for that, I wish it a speedy trip to h***.A railway line that perhaps not many of us have ridden, but we've all visited the Estación ObradoiroOut of curiosity I just might ride that little white train sometime. I have no idea where it goes.
I've not been too fond of that little train either, but then I tell myself that I don't own the square and I'm just glad to have arrived!I wouldn't mind if the little white train used the square as a station - a place to make a brief stop allow passengers to board or alight. But it treats it like a depot or perhaps an advertising billboard for itself. And for that, I wish it a speedy trip to h***.
Yeah you have to own four train squares to make it worthwhile. And I promise I will never again make a Monopoly joke on this forum again.I've not been too fond of that little train either, but then I tell myself that I don't own the square and I'm just glad to have arrived!
Cercedilla station - 26 March 2018
walking the Camino de Madrid ...in spring ...
between Cercedilla and Segovia , we were advised it wasn’t walkable due to snow covering the pass - El puerto de la Fuenfría ...(1.796m altitude) . so the option was to train it from Cercedilla to Segovia. Maybe I’ll squeeze that section in another time I’ve got some spare time. I was really looking forward to it. View attachment 96379
Jabón Lagarto — my preferred way to wash clothes on the Camino! I buy a big bar for a couple of euros, slice it in half and give half away. I usually have to buy another at the end of the camino, but I absolutely love it. My Spanish friends tell me it is the best thing for sensitive skin, which I don’t have, but maybe I should start keeping a whole bar in my pack and using it to wash clothes and body!
No but I've been photobombed by the little white train, at the end of my epic 2019 camino. I was annoyed at first, but now it tickles my funny bone.A railway line that perhaps not many of us have ridden
You look very happy...train or no train!No but I've been photobombed by the little white train, at the end of my epic 2019 camino. I was annoyed at first, but now it tickles my funny bone.
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Yeah, it was quite a camino. I'm still digesting it. At the time, I was simply amazed to have done it.You look very happy...train or no train!
VN,No but I've been photobombed by the little white train, at the end of my epic 2019 camino. I was annoyed at first, but now it tickles my funny bone.
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Edit - Also from Santiago (2015). The train station is nothing special, except what happens there. Here's that poignant moment when you know the camino for that year is really finished:
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