Infrastructure

Old Medina de Pomar station

The old Medina de Pomar station is located at kilometre point 336.8 on the former Santander-Mediterranean Sea railway line.

The complex was built by the Compañía del Ferrocarril Santander-Mediterráneo and began to operate at the end of 1930, coinciding with the inauguration of the section linking the towns of Trespaderne and Cidad.

It was a medium-sized station, although it would eventually have five service tracks. RENFE would take over its management with the nationalisation of the Iberian gauge railways, which took place in 1941.

After several years of decline, the station had to be downgraded and in 1981 it would be considered a siding-loader until the closure of the line in 1985.

The Santander-Mediterranean Sea line was planned to link the ports of Santander and Valencia but, for various reasons, it was never completed. Nevertheless, it was in operation for more than fifty years from the Cidad-Dosante station, in the north of Burgos, and Calatayud, where it connected with another line of the Ferrocarril Central de Aragón (Aragon Central Railway), which headed for Teruel and Valencia.

A standardised, multi-purpose fleet of steam locomotives, passenger and goods wagons, all of national manufacture, used to run on this track. Coal from La Robla, sand from Arija for the glass industry, wood from the forests of Burgos and Soria, and citrus fruits were brought to the Mediterranean. Cereals, seed potatoes, fertilisers, livestock and building materials were among the other products regularly transported.

Otros puntos de interés

• Bilbao - La Robla mining railway
• Old Dosante - Cidad station
• Cidad Tunnel
• Viaduct over the river Nela
• Viaduct over the river Nela
• Viaduct over the river Nela
• Puentedey tunnel
• Viaduct over the river Nela
• Old Brizuela station
• Viaduct over the river Nela
• Old Escaño halt
• Viaduct over the river Nela
• Viaduct over the river Nela
• Viaduct over the river Nela
• Old Horna-Villarcayo Station
• Viaduct over the river Nela