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Notice the Twilight Zone pic in the bar.......with the hat still there? @Earache pointed it out on Facebook!

Continuing my journey of locating abandoned stations on the old GSSR Railway.......today I tracked down Gorafe Station. Or rather, the ruins of Gorafe Station as it's currently being used as a goat shed. What a waste! This was the most difficult station so far as neither Google Maps nor Google Earth were that clear on what sort of terrain I might have to cross. It turned out to be pretty rough, full of rocks, and very bumpy. Whoever owns the place now had two guard dogs roaming as well.....just to make things more interesting. What was a surprise was that I also found some other abandoned buildings following the trail to the station......one looked like a former bar and hotel. Went into the bar actually......and everything is still in place despite being abandoned in 1984. Bit spooky really. Watch the vid first (all offroad).......that way you'll get a better overview of where everything was located. This one was hard, the terrain wasn't so clever, it was baking hot, and I ain't getting any younger! But it's better than languishing in an Old Folks Home! Here's the updated map.......green spots are completed stations. This is how it looked in 1966..... And this is what it looks like now........

Got to be the BOTM pic!

Must have......but he came along 20 years later in the mid 80's. Spain is always years behind in everything.

I'm back........hot and exhausted......that was hard! Inaccessible without invoking rugged individualism!

Off shortly to find another abandoned station.......though on this one I'm not sure if it still exists. Hope so......because the photo of a brick in the middle of nowhere is not exactly inspirational.

Not arrived with you yet though?

Brilliant @Earache.........and you got a train in there too! I'm still hunting for one! And I'm always amazed at how all the buildings are wooden. You don't see that here.......they'd probably all burst into flames in the Summer!

That's bloody good nick Clive! Is it a 400?

Yeh.......I started off on Scooters in 71. Lambretta TV175 and then a Vespa SS180 which I passed my test on.

Photo?

Any buildings still left?

Are the Parps revolting there then?

Mowing lawns......I don't miss that one bit!

Highway to Hell more like!

They're sending it on a Mystery Tour?

They have bike meets there don't they Clive?

These weeks are flying by.......which is fine by me because July and August here are hard going. I'm planning to pick up an abandoned railway station on either Saturday or Sunday......not sure which station yet though. Probably the less sweaty option! What you got planned?

That's just scary.....he's lucky to be alive!

Yeh!

Hi Jeff......how you doing these days?

You expect to see Amish coming out of it!

Can you believe that fucking morons are still continuing to support the Chinese economy by buying Chinese bikes, phones and other products? We've had Huawei mobiles for the last couple of years and they've been brilliant. But there's no way we'll buy them (or any other Chinese brand) again. AFAIC the situation with Covid is nothing other than germ warfare! And they're not happy with just generating new strains of virus........they're bringing back old ones as well, because they've reported Bubonic Plague there now! What's next? The Black Death? Keep them and their products in their country is the answer! What you say?