For years, the fans of
the Spanish railroad had few opportunities and means for
 the
knowledge of the lines and rolling stock of our country.
Lucky, the bold
efforts of many of them for our railway patrimony knew and to make
come to the public (generally little valued
Efforts, when not completely ignored) have given place to the
appearance of a railway culture and to the takeoff of the
publications on railroads in our country, supported by institutions,
associations and publishers firmly involved in the spreading of this
patrimony, so much regarding the treatment and study of the rolling
stock as to the knowledge of the different lines from the historical
point of view.
Nevertheless, and
in spite of the multiple contributions of these pioneers, still
there exists a plot of the Spanish railroad little explored up to
the date: The industrial railroad history.
The line Villalba -
Berrocal stays involved in it, for what this book comes to relieve
partly this situation: it is not a question of the habitual
photographic book, but it penetrates into the origins and history of
the line without forgetting, clear it is, his rolling stock.
It is a singular
contribution to the railway Spanish literature, since in this line
several peculiar circumstances come together, since it are his track
gauge, his activity or the fact of having being exploited by a great
company as that of the North and later by Renfe, constituting for
his characteristics the only case in both administrations. |
