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Old Villaverde Peñahorada halt station
This is a small railway construction belonging to the failed Santander-Mediterranean railway line, which served the municipality of Villaverde Peñahorada in Burgos. The aim of this service was to connect the Cantabrian coast from Santander to the Mediterranean at the port of Sagunto.
In 1920, the provincial councils of Burgos, Santander, Soria and Zaragoza supported the construction of the central sections of the Santander-Mediterranean railway. In 1930, the section between Calatayud and Cidad-Dosante, of which this station forms part, was completed.
However, technical problems, as well as the low profitability of the line, together with the political instability of the early 20th century meant that, in the end, the complete route of this ambitious project never saw the light of day. In fact, the connection to Santander was never completed, with 35 km of track missing. Nevertheless, some stretches were brought into operation, such as the section passing through the small village of Villaverde de Peñahorada, in the heart of the province of Burgos, which has remained as one of the vestiges of this grand railway that never was.
The line was closed definitively in 1985 and the facilities on the sections that had been inaugurated up to that time were condemned to their fate. In the case of Villaverde de Peñahorada, the station was quite simple and consisted of just a building for passengers with a service hut attached. The infrastructure is now completely abandoned and a fence has been erected around its perimeter to protect onlookers from the danger of collapse. From the immediate vicinity of the building it is possible to observe how wild vegetation has taken over the building.