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The Municipal Socialist Group has once again denounced the poor conditions in which the Association of Friends of the Railway works and shows their funds, so after submitting different motions to demand a decent and final installation of the City of Murcia, Team of the Government, of the PP, that has altitude of sights and that makes of the Museum of the Railroad one of the best exhibition spaces nationwide.

"Murcia has a unique opportunity to showcase a valuable historical railway material, compiled by the aforementioned Association, which is now in very poor conditions," said Councilor Begoña García Retegui, who advises the Government team to visit the place where Is stored, "to see if this, once and for all, takes this issue seriously and considers it, like the rest of the political groups, as an urgent matter."

He also stated that "to keep stacked, sometimes piled up, valuable pieces in the premises of the Association of Friends of the Railway, located in the station of Carmen, is to help their deterioration, in addition to impairing their visibility and the possibilities of Be visited ".

In this regard, remember that in this museum there are numerous models with miniature trains, very old station clocks, ticket issuing machines and bundles of past centuries, among many others.

The councilor, who has recently visited these facilities, highlights the value of the funds and says that Murcia could have a magnificent museum dedicated to the railroad, which could even be a hallmark of the municipality and yet "we have hundreds of pieces In a small space, in poor conditions, complicated access and threatened by the next works of the station, despite the enormous efforts of the Association to collect and maintain these funds.

Likewise, Garcia Retegui recalled that in October 2015 a motion was approved in plenary to give a definitive solution to the search and provision of a suitable place for the Railway Museum, the opposition groups accepting the proposal of the PP to install the Museum in the artillery barracks.

"Faced with the passivity of the Government team, just a year later we came back on this issue with another motion, urgency, which was approved with the inexplicable abstention of the popular, who at this point are not sure that the Barracks is the best site Without offering any alternative. "

He adds that in previous initiatives "we have not only denounced the conditions of the current building, but we have proposed a more appropriate location, such as the current administrative headquarters of EMUASA, which was once the old station of Zaraiche."

Therefore, he insists that the Government team should visit the current facilities, "to know in situ the precariousness of the funds and to see if, when he knows the current situation of the valuable pieces that houses the Museum, To look the other way and to make deaf ears to the request of new facilities ".

Source: PSOE Murcia