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Students of municipal school workshop have been responsible for the restoration. |
The work of restoring the locomotive Victoria has culminated in the removal thereof from the premises of CFIE-El Palmar, where they have carried out the work by the students of the School Workshop "Accessible Youth Center.
Phase II "to your location which will from now on: the square connecting the Morera, Grandchild, Pablo Picasso and Orchard streets, found near the intersection of Santiago El Mayor.
To make the transfer of the locomotive and due to its weight (about 12 tons) for large tonnage crane used truck and gondola type.
Students-workers School workshop, which previously had conditioned the roundabout to the location of the locomotive, also participated in the auxiliary work support available, as signaling zone or traffic diversion and finalized the details of lighting .
This locomotive is a museum piece that Murcia will enjoy at street level and has recovered 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.
For the choice of the place of the piece, James the Greater, has taken into account the outstanding tradition that exists in this area of ​​the city, in the railway as well as indications of the Friends of the Railroad.
The locomotive was built by Hawthons & C.
Leith in Britain in 1867 for railway Buitrón to San Juan del Puerto, in Huelva.
The factory sent four machines were named Vitoria, Maria Teresa, Sotiel and Beas.
Two of them were scrapped in 1953 and another in 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 Murcia Association of Friends of Railway, whose members have advised the school workshop throughout the rehabilitation process.
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 railroad between that place and the mouth of the Odiel river.
The tenant of mine was The Buitrón and Huelva Railway º C and Mineral Ltd, also driving the rail lines.
The locomotive was sent to Valencia, where he finished in a junkyard in the town of Silla.
It 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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