Mercado de Motores

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.