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The machine was built in Britain for Huelva railway linking Buitrón mines and San Juan del Puerto.
School students these days municipal workshop finalized the details of the restoration.
The piece soon occupy the large roundabout to access the beginning of the road of Sewell.
A museum piece Murcia will enjoy at street level and in the coming weeks will recover all its splendor, who looked back in 1867 when it began to circulate.
This is the locomotive Victoria, one of the two oldest preserved in Spain these days and is being restored by the workshop students and Forge Blacksmiths Workshop School "Youth Centre Accessible.
Phase II. "
The locomotive was built by Hawthons & C.
Leith in Britain in 1867 for railway Buitrón to San Juan del Puerto, Huelva.
The factory sent four machines that were baptized as Vitoria, Maria Teresa, Sotiel and Beas.
Two were scrapped in 1953 and another on an unspecified date.
Victoria was the first locomotive of the 19 who covered that way.
It was the first railroad built in Huelva.
The Department of Employment, led by José María Tortosa, has enjoyed the cooperation of the Association of Friends of Railway Murcia, whose members have advised the school workshop throughout the rehabilitation process.
Currently, it is the painting workshop students who have taken over the tasks and are putting the finishing touches so it can be installed in the rotunda of the road start Murcia-Sewer.
The last phase before its opening is scheduled for September.
Workshops will then Masonry, Electricity and Gardening makers to adapt that roundabout so you can host the locomotive before the end of the year.
The first documented narrow gauge locomotives began circulating in Spain in 1867.
The exploitation of the copper mines Buitrón Castle, in Huelva, advised the construction of the railway between that place and the mouth of the Odiel.
The lessee of the mines was The Buitrón and Huelva Railway and Mineral C ° Ltd, also driving of railways.
The locomotive was sent to Valencia, where he finished in a junkyard in the town of Silla.
Was then recovered by the city of Murcia, who spent Desert park in Espinardo, and later was transferred to the municipal nurseries Green Sangonera.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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