Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles (RENFE) was a Spanish state-owned company that operated the national Iberian-gauge railway network between 1941 and 2005. For more than six decades and as a monopoly, it was exclusively responsible for the transport of passengers and goods on its lines, as well as for the management of its infrastructure.
An AVE train at Madrid-Atocha station in 1999
Former offices of RENFE in Madrid, formerly the administrative building of the M.Z.A. Company built in 1890.
Talgo III near Guadix. From 1960 onwards, diesel and electric traction began to gain momentum.
Mikado locomotive, would be the last steam traction locomotive to provide services with RENFE.
The Compañia de los Caminos de Hierro del Norte de España (CCHNE), known simply as Norte, was a Spanish railway company founded on December 29, 1858. Its network was one of the most extensive in Spain, until it was nationalized in 1941, and integrated into the Red Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Españoles (RENFE).
Inauguration of the Northern Railway in San Sebastian on August 15, 1864.
The Barcelona-North Station, photographed around 1874
A 6100 series locomotive at La Cobertoria station (1925)
The locomotive 6103 of "Norte" at the Puerto de Pajares