The railway line that had to communicate Lleida's
city with Saint -
Girons in the French Ariège
remained to way to do, in La
Pobla de Segur. This railroad had to turn also partly of an ambitious
prolongation into south direction towards Teruel and the Andalusian region
of Baeza.
This
longest railroad had overcome 850 km. of tour. Nevertheless the different
epochs in which the project appeared it suffered the political and
economic delays of finals of the 19th century and the convulsions of the
current century.
The railroad would think up for the river Noguera – Pallaresa
and for the Salat. Competing with this
railroad those of the Canfranc were
constructed in Aragon and that of Puigcerdá
in the oriental pirineos. It seemed to be
logical that this railroad was losing support and state budgets in his
construction. Other projects of secondary railroads from Lleida
up to the French border taking advantage of the valleys of other rivers
also they occupy his space in the book.
Both
dictatorial governments of Spain, Primo de Ribera and Franco, favored the
construction of big public works and railway lines as the Saint
- Girons to
Baeza. The investments realized only have served for 89 km Between Lleida
and La Pobla de Segur, which nonetheless is a fundamental way for the
development and the communications of these regions, in danger of
demographic and economic regression.
The
rest of the tracing up to Baeza is characterized by the left and ruined
works along the whole distance. Even between Albacete and Baeza
investments were done in the 60s taking advantage of the released economic
stability, but to a little time the ambition frustrated and paralyzed. The
only trains that have circulated along the line are those of placement of
the route in the 60 and of his felling in the 90. There suppose the
authors that it has been a great political nonsense the work of the AVE
attacked Madrid - Seville and to stop to way to do this railway relation
between the Levant and Andalusia.
The authors hope that the work at least illuminates some dark and unknown
aspects of the Saint -
Girons to Baeza, undoubtedly one of the
major failures in the construction of public works in Spain.
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