It is difficult to find a more eloquent metaphor for the transience of life than railway stations. Trains come and go, passengers leave and arrive, everything changes every day, nothing changes. Railway stations are places to meditate on the arrow … weather.
CanFrank He appears again and again in my dreams. Gold, spies, the brilliance of the time I did not live. Beautiful women, like Mata Hari, cross its huge hall as snow falls on a winter night. The lit window of the sleeping Wagon Lits casts a silhouette in the darkness. he Steam locomotive Game introductions.
I go back in time more than eight decades and see SS officers on the platforms. There are workers who transport Tungsten Spanish to German trains while soldiers carrying swastikas deliver gold in bags to regime officials. franc. It comes from Swiss banks where the Nazis deposited some of the gold stolen from the Jews. Tungsten is necessary for the battle tanks of the Wehrmacht, which has already destroyed and just invaded the French army soviet union.
It was reopened in 1939 after the end of the year Civil warthe SS occupy the French part of Canfranc Station, a town in Huesca, built under bilateral agreement and joint administration. It was opened in 1928 by Alfonso XIII. In 1915, work was completed on a large tunnel in Somport connecting the railways between the two countries. On the one hand Spanish trains arrived with Iberian scale. In the end, those arriving on the European measuring lines stopped. Goods and passengers had to cross to continue their journey to the neighboring country.
The Canfranc International Terminal was operational Until 1970 When a French freight train derailed, causing the bridge to collapse. The service to Pau was interrupted, but a bus service was launched that took travelers to the town of Beddos in Aquitaine.
A century after its opening, Canfranc still admires its site and its monuments. located in Altitude: 1200 metresat the foot of the Pyrenees, its rocky roofs and roofs contrast with the silhouette of the mountains. Its dimensions, 241 meters long and 75 doors, seem enormous in a town with hundreds of residents.
Designed with canons French stately architectureIt has a large central hall and four side bodies. The interior is elegant and bright, enhanced by a large dome. Inside, there were ticket offices, customs, shops, a bar and a hotel where legend says the spies spent the night and exchanged information.
A century after its opening, the station still impresses with its location and monuments, located 1,200 meters above sea level, at the foot of the Pyrenees.
The first floor gives access to Platformscovered with metal awnings. The second, open with semicircular openings, overlooks the slate attic of the Sigovian city of Bernardus. If you close your eyes, you might think you are in a French Bourbon palace because of its splendor.
A few years ago, the station came under the management of the Aragon government, which approved a plan in 2007 to completely rehabilitate it. The idea was to restore traffic with France, something that had not yet been possible to implement. There is a five-star hotel with a gym and spa. At the back of the building, a space has been allocated to display elements of railway activity. Frank was, is, and will remain a dream.