Mercado de Motores
Monthly flea market of vintage clothing, vinyl and antiques staged among nineteenth-century locomotives in a disused railway station.
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This guide to Mercado de Motores in Madrid follows the market from its 2012 start in a disused power plant that once ran the metro, to its move a year later into this abandoned 1880 railway terminus, built for a line to the Portuguese border that never drew much traffic. It traces how the station became a railway museum housing whole locomotives under its iron-and-glass roof, and how sellers now set up among the trains that made the building obsolete. Look up at the ironwork overhead, more than a century older than the stalls beneath it.
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