>>1178109Before the civil war (36-39), there were both metre-gauge and standard gauge lines in Barcelona. After the war, the whole system was converted to standard gauge, except the Badalona line which remained meter-gauge until the end. In 1945 the reorganization of services was concluded and a new terminal was established at Urquinaona square: There was a stub track for the interurban services to Sant Adrià, numbered 71, or all the way to Badalona, numbered 70, which used married pairs that were double-ended, and a loop for the partial service to Sant Martí (42) and the branch line to Poblenou (41), which was discontinued in 1955 when it was replaced by a standard gauge line.
In those days there were trams painted red and painted green. AFAIK the ones running to Sant Adrià or Badalona were painted green, the others red, but this was apparently not strictly respected, as pic related shows. I'm also unsure if this 71 tram is actually single ended and using the loop intended for line 42 (the pic is from 1956, so line 41 was kill already). The picture is taken on Trafalgar street, close to the terminus. Hackshually, the terminus was also called "Trafalgar", as for the street where it ended, which is why you see the signs of that era indicating Trafalgar as the terminus.
