The First Railway in Spain

19 of March 1848 By Alejandro Canora

A NEW WAY OF TRANSPORT IN SPAIN

The First Railway at Spain

Today, the railway arrived to the peninsula in Barcelona, at Mataró. The first Spanish railway was built in Cuba in 1837 and correspondence to the Havana-Güines line, but at the península, the first one had been built this year in Barcelona.

The cost of developing the railway system were huge due to the geography of the península. To cross the mountain ranges, tunnels had to be excavated, cuttings and embankments built. Spain’s modest levels of economic development meant that it could not afford expensive railways. The only way to pay for them was by using poor quality, cheap trains. It’s been built to move large quantity of products more quickly.

Although this is the first raiway built at the península, it’s not the first at the world. The first one was constructed in Englan during the 1825 by George Stephenson.