THE FIRST RAILWAY IN SPAIN

A new source of transport that is going to improve Spain

Yesterday In Spain , In 1848 , the goverment finished with the construction of a railway between Barcelona and Mataró. They didn´t it only by rapid economic growth, but also by landscapes favourable to railway construction. Economic difficulties and the presence of some of the most mountainous terrain in Europe ensured that railways arrived relatively late in Spain. The first line to be built in the Peninsula was a short link from Barcelona to Mataró in 1848, although by that date a line was already working in Cuba. It was not until laws were passed in the 1850s making railway investment more attractive to foreign capital, that railway building on a large scale began.