User:Jose.lagarda/Railroad switch El Trocadero

El Trocadero splice station is a structure made between 1856 and 1858 where was going to be built the first change of needle and railway junction in Spain.

History
In 1860, Madrid was connected with the Cadiz docks by rail, passing through Puerto Real and San Fernando, so it was necessary to build a railway junction station with a needle change in Puerto Real, nowadays located in the Toruños Park.

The construction consisted of a small building, with oyster and brick stone walls.

The floor is made with monochrome hydraulic tile in red and white which decorates it as a checkered pattern. Next to this are the platforms, which are not visible today.

In the back there is a garden and a cobblestone platform on which two cisterns were built.

By 1895 this railroad section that linked Matagorda Shipyards with Puerto Real began to be used to facilitate the transport of its workers, so in the last years of operation the train became known as "train of the dike" or "Matagorda train".

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