The final day of the trip. With a mid afternoon flight to catch from Montpellier, I headed north and spent the morning near Leucate-La Franqui, between Perpignan and Narbonne, where the line runs through an area of salt marshes.

This section of line is busier than where I’d been with TGVs from Perpignan and Figueres, on the Spanish side of the Perthus tunnel and currently the limit of operation on what will eventually be the high-speed line to Barcelona. The only loco hauled passengers seen were the two trains from Avignon. I had hoped that a Perpignan - Avignon service might also produce but it was formed of a pair of Z27500 units.

At least there were more freights with a northbound steel train and a northbound intermodal seen, possibly the same intermodal I’d seen at Cerbere on the previous two mornings. There was also a BB69200 hauling a single car carrier wagon south.

I left for the airport at midday, just as the cloud was beginning to gather in the west.

S of Leucate-La-Franqui

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
7407	76407	07:28 Avignon Centre - Cerbere Passsenger	10:02
69224		SB Car Carrier	10:07
26183 26169		NB Steel	10:12
TGV.4522	TGV9962	10:13 Perpignan - Bruxelles Midi	10:30
26122		NB Intermodal	11:11
7301	86989	09:15 Avignon Centre - Port Bou	11:50
TGV.736	TGV6210	11:06 Figueres Vilafant - Paris Lyon	11:52
TGV.740	TGV6203	07:20 Paris Lyon - Figueres Vilafant	12:00