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In the late nineteenth century qipao as a result of industrial development in the regions and Alcoyano County, the English qipao company Alcoy and Gandia Railway and Harbour Company Limited to build a railroad linking the port of Gandia Alcoy to transport raw materials and industrial products from those regions, mainly textile and steel. Known as "the railway of the English," this railroad operated for 76 years until 15 April 1969 he made his last trip to low profitability. qipao
42 years ago the demise of the railroad Alcoy-Gandia. Although apparently only part of popular memory, the world of black and white photographs of the major battles of the spirit of the beloved warbler is still represented in the old stations, locomotives and monumental Gandia Alcoy, the Museum of alms to the Greenway Serpens or the only stretch of road that is still standing, the level of the same 118 years ago where he spent the first steam locomotive. Taking advantage of the event I make a special tribute to a means of transport due to which the explosion of the Industrial Revolution in Alcoy, qipao the birth of tourism in Gandia and the existence of popular route Ravine of Hell. But let's start from the beginning. The railway in Alcoy corner of Duke. Watercolor Story of Jesus Serquera railroad Alcoy-Gandia
In the late nineteenth century and the region of Alicante County Alcoyano had a very prosperous industry led by Alcoy, the pioneer of the Industrial Revolution in Valencia, Alicante called Barcelona. But his development was truncated as a result of his complicated landscape for both the products and to start to stock up on coal with which to feed the steam engines. They needed an outlet to the sea, but as much as County Alcoyano were isolated by mountain barriers. The more direct route to the sea meant to follow the route of the river Serpis birth that ended in Alcoy to Gandia level. But there was a catch: the narrow gorge that formed between Orxa and Villalonga was second to none.
The first step came 19 July 1886 a royal order that contained the authorization to build and operate a railroad economy, with a width of 1 meter between Alcoy and Gandia port. With a maximum of 5 years and a budget of 5,948,066.66 pesetas, qipao the line had to have stations in Alcoy, Cocentaina Wall, Gandia and Villalonga. It also had the requirement to improve communication with the inner regions of the coastal towns, adding a branch to hit Spoon, but only to the right bank of Júcar to save on the cost of another bridge.
In 1887 the concession line passed to Donato Gomez Trevijano a figurehead for the deputy Gandia Sinibaldo Gutierrez, despite state subsidies, found no Spanish company to take over the project, so he traveled to Investors look to England, pioneered the development of the railway in 1834 opened the first railway line in the world, the Manchester-Liverpool. qipao In London, he contacted a company that quickly saw the big business that would import a railway line, Northern Europe, both coal for the growing demand of the textile industry alcoyana as wood packing oranges Safor. Finally on 3 July 1889 the project was transferred to the Alcoy and Gandia Railway and Harbour Company Limited, on behalf of John Cockburn Francis Lee, but ignore the condition of the building branch of Spoon. Clearly, the interest of the company was based on freight.
The project had a total cost of 23 million qipao pesetas, of which 16 corresponded to the layout of roads and infrastructure, and other locomotives and wagons. The construction of the line, which lasted just over two years was run by two companies, the Company qipao also English and Ravel Lucien and Muriel y Cia. Degree stations are built, Gandia Potro, Villalonga, Beniarrés, Wall, Cocentaina Alcoy to be added later alms Beniarjó the Orxa and Gaianes. The engineers, led by Philip Ayres, faces a difficult route including tunnels, bridges, cuttings qipao and various engineering structures, particularly in the stretch between Villalonga and Orxa, where the river forms a narrow gorge Serpis.
8 is projected tunnels, all numbered from Alcoy and the digit engraved stone arches that crown: No. 1 at the end of the Concentaina, 240 m to the No. 2 output Beniarrés, about 260 m, the number 4 to the output of Orxa (110 m)