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The first train line was built on Spanish soil was made in Cuba. Yes! In this beautiful island across the pond … And though that ground many years ago ceased to be Spanish, not that the island is no longer beautiful. The eighteenth century is remembered for what happened in his early years, and not by the start of construction of rail lines that were spreading throughout the Spanish territory from almost the second half of that century. Perhaps that is why, next year will mark the second anniversary of what I have just reflected our beloved painter of the court (Goya), in the table look at what happened in the mountains of Prince Pio.

But even missing four decades to reach almost half of the twenty-first century marks the second anniversary of the construction of the second railway line on Spanish soil, ie the first line drawn in the Iberian Peninsula. That building (the line from Barcelona to Mataro), had a material fact that is hardly known and I like to remember. Did you know? Yes, the construction of the first tunnel, the first on Spanish soil!.

Almost 160 years ago they built the first tunnel, and also very close to Barcelona. Perhaps that is not understood that the Catalan administration (responsible for the underground works of Caramel) were to come down the odd house that was in the neighborhood, ie, the tunnel of one meter line (“cousin” the train) in Caramel they had to fill in concrete as in the neighborhood, except that the earth swallowed the odd house, cracks appeared in many stories of neighbors …