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alicante-denia tram/train
A good chunk of coast north of Alicante is covered by a very new narrow-guage tram/train system using the rails of an old diesel train. A ride to the end, Denia, takes almost 3 hours, although the route is circuitous in places. The interesting bit is that you have to change in Benidorm, from an electric tram to an identical looking diesel "tram". A project to electrify the line from Benidorm to Denia is underway. 2 questions arise from this: will the diesel "trams" be converted to run from the electricity pylons once they are in place, and, while there are plenty of cities running light trains on tram track, is there anywhere else in the world where a diesel train vehicle looks identical to a standard modern tram?
04.12.09 @ 03:54 PM CST [link]