One final post regarding the work being done on the Railway Museum etc. Some of you will be more aware than others of the amazing progress being made in developing the Museum and the efforts to create a functioning historic train and carriages between Arboleas and Alfoquia.
The benefits of this to our area would be enormous (positively impacting property values) and creating a wonderful tourist attraction. These developments only come about through the support and involvement of the local community.
I am asking that you spread the word about tomorrows AGM of the Association to get as many people as possible along (it is after all a holiday so you cannot go shopping!) The more people who attend the more seriously the authorities look at giving more financial support to the project.
The meeting is in the Renfe Building (opposite the Coviran supermarket) at 1200 noon tomorrow Monday 6th December. Go along and give them an hour of your time and discover the exciting plans for this project and by doing so show the people who hold the purse strings that we all support it.
Below is the latest release,
"Project for the restoration and enhancement of the Zurgena railway station
- The Alfoquía ”
During this year we are working with the Association "Friends of the Zurgena Railroad" in the project that contemplates the recovery of the rail infrastructure of the Zurgena Railroad Station, the station tracks, the turntable, locomotive coach, the reconstruction of the railway maintenance workshops and the creation of a technical training school on issues related to the railway and industrial heritage and a railway museum in the passenger terminal, as well as a track laying on the old route of the Baza - Lorca line for the exhibition of historical railway equipment.
This project is well advanced in its execution, the restoration of the cargo ship and freight dock are well advanced (currently the restoration of the original flooring based on travertine marble slabs is being completed) as well as the first room of the museum and also very advanced is the recovery of the railway line, the turntable, the restoration of the mineral wagon weighing scale and the facilities of the maintenance workshops (which already have an operational section in the old CAMPSA facilities). attached to the train station).
We are all working together with the Association of Municipalities of the Almanzora Valley for the laying of a railway within the Almanzora Greenway, in a first phase from the Zurgena station to the municipality of Arboleas, which will allow the circulation of historic trains with original materials and we have also asked the Fundación de Ferrocarriles Españoles, the division in charge of the Historical Railway Heritage of the Ministry of Development, the transfer of several locomotive units and passenger cars to proceed with their restoration and commissioning.
We keep working!!
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