ONCF DH 420 / Taourirt – Oued Metlili

For the second train from Oujda (وجدة), we drove through Taourirt (تاوريرت) again and passed through the checkpoint once more. As our brand-new hire car did not have a regular number plate, but only a temporary sticker, I feared the Gendarmerie Royale might take a keen interest in our activities. However, the gendarmes were primarily interested in overloaded commercial vehicles. A few kilometres east of Douar Oulad Ramdan (دوار أولاد رمضان) is the spot where we had photographed the Al Atlas 204 the previous year. Due to the front being only moderately lit and a generator van in its old paintwork directly behind the locomotive, we repeated the shot a little further back on the bend. The express train was hauled by the DH 420 as far as Fez, before the journey continued to Tangier (طنجة) with an Alstom Prima II.

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Vehicle

DH 420

Operator

ONCF

Line

Al Atlas

Train number

204

Photospot

Gteter, Region Oriental

Taken

11. Feb. 2026, 1:11 p.m.

Licence

All Rights Reserved

Camera position

From the ground

Photo type

Railway

Camera

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV

Focal length

35 mm

Aperture

f/7.1

Shutter speed

1/2000s

ISO

320