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In the year 1901, now
one century ago, there inaugurated a system of transport combined
 between
an electrical streetcar and the funicular one (the first one in
Spain) that would communicate the city of Barcelona (Sant Gervassi
of them Cassoles) with the top of the
mountain of the Tibidabo. This system
of transport was forming a part of an urbanization created by the
Doctor Salvador Andreu i Grau that
was trying to urbanize the mountain. Proving that the Town hall of
Barcelona was trying to preserve the mountain, the
S.A. THE
Tibidabo created a fairground and rooms of holidays in the
top of the mountain and that have lasted up to today.
The
S.A. The
Tibidabo was claiming expansionarse
beyond Collserola's Saw (mountain
that wraps Barcelona, the culminating top of which it is the
Tibidabo) for the slope of the
mountain, up to Vallvidrera and also
her to cross and to come up to the plain of the
Vallès (cities of Ruby and of
Terrassa).
Of this career for
communicating Barcelona with the plain of the
Vallès for
Collserola there were realized several attempts, of which we
stand out in the book, the streetcar of
l'Arrabassada's Casino, Sarrià's
small railroad - attraction to the Marsh (the
Mina-Grott) and finally, the
railroads of Catalonia S.A., company
with strong interests and the capital proceeding from North America
the related to the industrial electrification of Catalonia
(Irrigations and forces of the Ebro S.A.)
This book edited in
collaboration dels
Amics of the Railroad of Barcelona
(AAFCB) is a summary of the articles
that there wrote in the magazine RAIL missing Mr Joan M ª
Gracefullly i Matheu extended and
updated by Lluís Prieto i Tur. |
