Puntos de Interés
Infrastructure
Old Murero station
The ruins of the old Murero-Manchones railway station have remained as a vestige of a hectic past when the trains of the Calatayud-Valencia railway line, better known as “the Jiloca train,” inaugurated in 1902 and dismantled in the 1980s, used to pass through here.
This is what is left of an old building that belonged to the unfinished Santander-Mediterranean railway line, which served the Aragonese village of Murero. The purpose 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 drove the central sections of the Santander-Mediterranean railway. However, what was once among the most ambitious railway projects in Spain was never to be completed. The political instability of the early 20th century, along with the line’s limited profitability and the many technical problems that arose, prevented it from being completed, with 35 km of track never even being laid.
This line permanently closed in 1985 and with it the infrastructure located on the sections opened to that point were forgotten. In the case of Murero station, some of its original buildings are still standing, such as the building used as a reception and waiting area for passengers and another small building nearby which housed the public toilets.
Finally, users can stop along the way at the rest area that is now located beside this old infrastructure, where, aside from the interpretative panels, they can use the bike racks and tables provided there.