Bound for its destination

Minutes after concluding its official presentation before the authorities and press in Martorell, the 257.01 proceeded isolated but at a good pace to take charge of its first commercial train, the potash number Q956 from the Potassium Mine of Súria to the Muelle Álvarez de la Campa in Barcelona. This day marked the definitive decline of the omnipresent and veteran locomotives of series 254, which would conclude their commercial service a few months later.