{"id":287,"date":"2023-02-16T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learneurope.eu\/?p=287"},"modified":"2023-02-16T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T13:27:02","slug":"mollerussa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learneurope.eu\/es\/mollerussa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mollerussa"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOLLERUSSA<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Nombre de la estaci\u00f3n:\u00a0<\/strong>Mollerussa.<\/p>\n

Fecha de inauguraci\u00f3n:<\/strong>\u00a030th<\/sup>\u00a0Mayo de 1860.<\/p>\n

Autor:\u00a0<\/strong>Jaume Maci\u00e0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Origen y evoluci\u00f3n<\/strong><\/p>\n

This station on the Barcelona-Zaragoza line came into service in 1860 following the construction of the stretch of track between Manresa and Lleida on the line between Zaragoza and Barcelona which was built by the\u00a0Compa\u00f1\u00eda del Ferrocarril de Zaragoza a Barcelona[i]<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

This railway company was created in 1852 and associated with Manuel Girona i Agrafel. The company\u2019s objective was to build and exploit a line between these two major cities and passing through Lleida; the construction of the line was completed in 1862.<\/p>\n

In 1865, this company merged with the\u00a0Ferrocarril de Zaragoza a Pamplona<\/em>.[ii]\u00a0The resulting new company, called the\u00a0Compa\u00f1\u00eda de los Ferrocarriles de Zaragoza a Pamplona y a Barcelona<\/em>[iii]<\/a>\u00a0was then also absorbed, in 1878, by the\u00a0Compa\u00f1\u00eda de los Caminos de Hierro del Norte de Espa\u00f1a<\/em>[iv]<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The station currently provides medium-distance, Iberian-gauge services on the line that runs between L\u2019Hospitalet de Llobregat and Lleida (figure 1).<\/p>\n

Another station was built next to the first one in order to serve the Mollerussa-Balaguer line. This metric gauge line was 18 km long and was served by eight stations. It also had two branch lines: a 2 km line towards Men\u00e0rguens and a 1.3 km line towards the Merlet estate. Its construction, which began in 1899, was undertaken by Manuel Bertran y Cia., an industrial company from Barcelona, but the line was not officially opened until 1905. It was originally built to transport sugar beet to the sugar factory of Men\u00e0rguens. At the time, sugar beet plantations covered large areas of the\u00a0comarques<\/em>\u00a0(local districts) of La Noguera, L\u2019Urgell, El Segri\u00e1, Les Garrigues and La Llitera. The line was also used to transport building materials for the construction of the Camarasa reservoir.<\/p>\n

Figure 1: The current station<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fuente: ADIF<\/p>\n

Caracter\u00edsticas especiales<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mollerussa station is the property of ADIF and is located in the northern part of the town, which lies in the\u00a0comarca<\/em>\u00a0(local district) of El Pla d\u2019Urgell. The railway station serves the current R12 Barcelona-Manresa-Lleida line of the\u00a0Rodalies de Catalunya<\/em>\u00a0regional services which are run by RENFE.<\/p>\n

The station has a main track and also another separate stretch of track with side platforms, which are connected by a level crossing.<\/p>\n

Medio ambiente<\/strong><\/p>\n

Figure 2: Mollerussa railway station in 1905 and today<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.fotosdecatalunya.cat\/category\/lleida\/mollerusa<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Figure 3: The present building providing passenger services from Mollerussa, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.trenscat.com\/renfe\/mollerussa_ct.html<\/p>\n

Figure 4: The old Mollerussa to Balaguer station, 1905<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.fotosdecatalunya.cat\/category\/lleida\/mollerusa<\/p>\n

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[i]\u00a0Zaragoza to Barcelona Railway Company<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[ii]\u00a0Zaragoza to Pamplona railway<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[iii]\u00a0Zaragoza to Pamplona and Barcelona Railway Company<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[iv]\u00a0Iron Road Company of the North of Spain<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOLLERUSSA Name of the station:\u00a0Mollerussa. Date of inauguration:\u00a030th\u00a0May, 1860. Author:\u00a0Jaume Maci\u00e0 \u00a0Origin and evolution This station on the Barcelona-Zaragoza line came into service in 1860 following the construction of the stretch of track between Manresa and Lleida on the line between Zaragoza and Barcelona which was built by the\u00a0Compa\u00f1\u00eda del Ferrocarril de Zaragoza a Barcelona[i]. […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,11,13,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learneurope.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learneurope.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learneurope.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learneurope.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learneurope.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learneurope.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/learneurope.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learneurope.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learneurope.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learneurope.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learneurope.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}