Puntos de Interés
Infrastructure
Old Cardeñadijo station
The old halt stations of Cardeñadijo is another vestige of a different time, a bustling past when the trains ran through here on the Calatayud-Burgos railway line, which was dismantled in the 1980s.
This is all that remains of an old construction that was part of the unfinished Santander-Mediterranean railway line, which served the Burgos municipality of Cardeñadijo. The aim of this service was to connect the Cantabrian coast from Santander to the Mediterranean through the port of Sagunto.
In 1920, the provincial councils of Burgos, Santander, Soria and Zaragoza promoted the central sections of the Santander-Mediterranean railway. However, what was one of the most ambitious railway projects in our country was never completed. The political instability of the early 20th century, combined with the poor profitability of the line and the many technical problems that arose, meant it was ultimately finished, leaving even the connection to Santander incomplete with 35 km of track missing.
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 the halt station of Cardeñadijo, some of the buildings are still standing, such as the building used for the reception and waiting area for passengers and another small building nearby which housed public toilets.
