The Company of
Villena's Economic Railroads to
Alcoy to
Yecla
 and
Alcudia (VAYA), later
Villena-Alcoi-Yecla
(VAY) was seeking for the link with
the railroad Madrid Alicante in the city of
Villena and this way to communicate
Alcoi's industrial park.
After a series of economic problems, the company passed for
different hands until it became stable and extended his network
towards The Spot (To Jumilla and
later to Cieza exploited by a
subsidiary of the VAY, that of the
South of Spain.). This railway network, of metric route, was
connecting in “Muro” with the company of
Gandía's railroad, with the one that had narrow relations.
One of the most excellent characteristics of the company of
the F.C. of the
VAY was his exploitation with
railcars according to the patent Ybern,
an innovation led by the “Director-Gerente
– Manager” of the company in the 30s. Though they were circulating
some locomotives of steam for the lines of the
VAY for the services of goods, these
small railcars took the weight of the travelers' services up to the
closing of the lines, in July, 1969. |
