Abandoned: Canfranc International Railway Station

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Canfranc International Railway Station (Spanish: Estación Internacional de Canfranc) is a former international railway station in the village of Canfranc in the Spanish Pyrenees, at one end of the tunnel which carried the Pau to Canfranc line under the Pyrenees. Opened in 1928, the main building is 240 metres long and has 300 windows and 156 doors. The station's reason for being came to an abrupt halt in 1970 when a train derailment demolished a bridge on the French side of the mountains. The French decided not to rebuild the bridge, the cross border line was closed and never re-opened.

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The main building has been re-roofed, but is otherwise in a state of disrepair, fenced off and closed to the public except during guided tours in July and August offered via the local tourist office. The remainder of the huge site includes a large locomotive depot, two sheds for the transhipment of freight between French and Spanish trains, various other outbuildings and a large layout of tracks. The site is mostly overgrown, but most of the buildings are largely intact and can be entered.

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