Re-built from the Class 440 units in the mid-1990s the fifty-seven Class 470s are used on many inner and outer suburban services. 470 039 enters Barcelona França station with an unidentified working. This photograph clearly shows the wider Iberian (1,668 mm) used in much of Spain. It may appear that standing on the platform end of França station I would be immersed in the zounds of the surrounding city but it felt more like being in a rainforest with Barcelona zoo being just across the tracks to my left and it must have been feeding time judging by the sounds emanating from it!
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