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Presentation
in the book of Michael Ángel Rodríguez, president of AJAF, Jaen:
" No doubt, the book
that you are supporting in your hands comes to do justice to a part
of the history of our country forgotten by the majority of the
experts of this way of transport. In the already distant XIXth
century, the miners and railroad workers of the region of Linares
and the rest of the province of Jaen began to write with golden
letters a few epic pages in the history of the Spanish railroad. The
contribution of the ways of Jaen iron to the railway development of
Oriental Andalusia it was basic.
Numerous railway companies put
his lines to the service of this transport, arising c oncerning
the mining axis Linares - The Carolina an authentic net of fabric of
spider that was crossing it through. The big companies of national
area (MZA and Andalusians) and hisbranches (Los salidos - Vadollano)
smaller others joined with readiness, as The Carolina and
Prolongations with his railroad of metric route, as well as a good
number of small railroads and air cables that were serving to the
mining developments.
Two railway developments of
the zone deserve special mention, Streetcars of Linares and the
Electrical Railroad of The Hill, of the limes the first one was born
with evident purpose of service to the mines, using as transport of
the personnel to his respective wells, as well as of union between
the diverse railway stations that the city of Linares had. On August
1, 2004 Streetcars of Linares it will fulfill the Centenary of his
inauguration. The extraordinary of these two companies takes root in
that both were interconnected, both were served by streetcars and
both ended his days together, under the baton of Railroad
exploitation for the State, later Feve.
The industry of the province,
based on the olive grove, also found in the railroad his better form
of transport. Not without reason the railroad of Puente Genil -
Zarzuela knew itself Linares as the Train of the Oil. Still
today, the Green Route created on his former tracing knows itself
for this one the same name.
Rightly it is to remember that the
railroad had in the rest of the province other projects. We cannot
forget to the Baeza - Utiel, of unlucky memory for the harassed of
his history and the painful of his"death". Other tracings were that
of Marmolejo to Puertollano, whose works managed to begin, The
Carolina to Puertollano, and others of minor entity that they did
not happen from mere projects.
For us, fans and friends of the
railroad, the lines that furrowed one day the whole province have a
great meaning: they brought, from the hand of the mining industry,
work and prosperity to our land, and still they would continue
bringing it if they had not been eliminated great part of the
tracings, after his shameful abandon. Because of it it is so
important that this book is published. The collective memory of a
society never dies if his recollections are kept fresh in every
citizen. The Utopian dream of every friend of the railroad should be
that this one work that now has in his) hands could be the base for
the return to the life of some closed line. Still being a Utopia, it
fits the safety of which he will contribute that this part of our
history does not fall down in the oblivion. (...) " |
