Museo del Ferrocarril de Madrid
Grand iron-and-glass former railway terminus turned museum of historic steam, diesel and electric trains.
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This guide to the Museo del Ferrocarril de Madrid traces Delicias station back to its opening in 1880 under a soaring iron-and-glass nave designed by French engineer Émile Cachelièvre, a former student of Gustave Eiffel. It follows the station through its slow decline as passenger crowds and then freight traffic dried up, and the long stretch afterward when officials argued over its fate. Listen for how the very tracks beneath the museum still carry a train once a year, tracing a nineteenth-century route named for the harvest it once carried.
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