A part of Alicante’s history will travel more than 700 kilometres to be fixed and appreciated. These carriages are a part of the history of all the people of Alicante who rode the “Limón Exprés” train, which went from Benidorm to Gata de Gorgos along the cliffs. Six carriages were loaded and taken to the FGV facility at El Campello for restoration on Monday, November 17th. Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) has lent these carriages to the Tourist Train Consortium in Villablino (León). They will be fixed up at the Ferrocarril del Valle del Sil workshops, where they will arrive on Wednesday. The idea is to help them get better and use them, but not in Alicante.
The Ponferrada-Villablino Consortium (Castilla y León) has taken these rail cars, which belong to Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV), and added them to a tourism route. The PSPV didn’t like the decision that the Popular Party backed when this publication initially wrote about it last June. At the time, Joserra González de Zárete, the spokeswoman for Infrastructure, said that the relocation was meant to “enhance the value of this heritage and is temporary.”
Juanjo Hernández, head of the Federació d’Amics del Ferrocarril de la CV, said that “the only thing that can console us is that they will continue to exist, not for the enjoyment of Valencians, but they will continue to exist.”
The Lemon Train
This famous train started running in 1971 and was the first tourist train in the country. It had twelve carriages with wooden balconies from the 1920s and 1930s, each named after a woman, two café cars, and three locomotives that train fans think of as relics. David Simpson, an Englishman residing in Benidorm, came up with the idea for the train. He found old railway equipment that was no longer in use and fixed it up to make the train, which was originally lemon yellow and called the Limón Express (Lemon Express).
Author: Derek Appleton
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