Still sporting the buffer beam SP sticker that appeared several years ago, CP's 1413 lurks in Porto Campanhã with a test train. The test bit is on the back. It's more brake force runner than test train.

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Porto Campanhã, in the daylight bit of the bay platforms.

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On the Port Train and secreted away in the back platform like all unfashionable loco hauled trains must be. That and it's the only available platform because all the rest were full of those crap Spanish DMUs.

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I think we stopped to cross with one of those godawful Spanish units that infest the Douro now.

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No unnecessary footbridges here. But it's a wonder we weren't all killed to bits.

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