The narrow and isolated
valley of the Rio Aller, in the south
of the Asturias,
 but
in the northern spurs of the Cantabrian Mountain chain, possesses
geologically an enormous quantity of coal of industrial use, as the
municipalities of his surroundings.
The historical
and industrial needs do necessarily the beginning of the extractions
of the mineral, of a very increasing way, taking pair the need to
give exit out of the valley of the whole production of coal for his
use in the local industry.
This transport, which initially is realized of precarious form
by cars, soon takes place across the railroad, by means of multiple
railway companies, lines and systems, which believe a chaotic use of
little available space in the valley.
After the first project of railroad of the zone, at the
expense of the Mining Society “The Highland one ”, between
Ujo and Moreda de Aller, it is the
line of the Society “Mines of Aller's
Coal ” the one that constitutes the first railroad of the valley.
This railroad, after the creation of the SHE,
Society Spanish Colliery, changes ownership and is extended,
constituting the most extensive network of those who operated in the
valley. This network went on later to
HUNOSA's hands and finally closed
The streetcar to Steam of the Industrial Asturian Society
between Santullano and
Cabañaquinta, Mina Desquite's
Railroad to Moreda, the branch of
Broad Route between Sovilla and
Ujo, and the line between
Ujo and Asturian Collanzo del Vasco,
now Feve, they are different of the
railroads that they managed to develop in the valley.
Besides an extensive description of every railroad, also
there are detailed the projects of the continuation of
Collanzo's railroad to
Felechosa and to
Matallana, to join with narrow rail
Asturias and León to the margin of the broad route, the projects for
the variant of Barns that included in someone of his offers the
valley of the Aller, and the current
importance of the valley, in which there affects specially the end
of the exploitation of the coal, the survival of only one of his
railroads, the population decrease and in general the decadence that
is suffered after so many years of great industrial activity. |
