"Vasco-Navarro" (Lizarra-Gasteiz-Bergara) trenbidearen desagerpena: 1966-1968

Suso Espadas, Iñaki

Publication year:

2012

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1136-6834

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Summary

When the Basque-Navarrese Railway Line that ran between Lizarra-Estella, Vitoria-Gasteiz and Bergara was closed down in 1968, it signalled the end of a history and a story that had gone on for nearly a century. The building of the railway had been very laborious; the original project presented in 1882 was not finished until 1929 when the Lizarra-Gasteiz branch line was built (the stretch between Gasteiz and the Mekolalde district of Bergara had been completed ten years previously, in 1919 in fact). But its closing down was also quite problematic, and the Provincial Councils of Araba, Gipuzkoa and Navarre were happy, maybe too happy to comply with the order handed down by the Spanish State (the railway was apparently unprofitable from an economic point of view, at least).