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THE GREAT LOST PYRENEAN RAILWAY AND CANFRANC STATION

Ok you grown-ups, this is History Boy gold – an abandoned railway! Us Brits are no strangers to the Jungian conflict that comes with dismantled railways; the pain that so much effort in construction has now gone to waste, combined with the loin-tingling frissant of exploring a secret, abandoned place.

Righto, your next Pyrenees road trip needs to take in the route from Pau to Jaca, over on the western side of the mountains. Like any upland road this is a great route, but 100 years ago it was

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