The imprint of the Peñarroya-Fuente del Arco railway on the Territory, as an example of an engineering-modified landscape

Abstract

The paper explores the current condition of the vestiges of the railroad Peñarroya-Fuente del Arco, an historical metric gauge line. The infrastructure, in service between 1895 and the 1970s, was constructed by the Sociedad Minero Metalúrgica de Peñarroya. The research combines the compilation of previous information with some other new historical data, based on fieldwork and archival research, and an analysis of the current status of the buildings and the layout in the geographical context is done. The main conclusion is the characterization of the footprints of the rail line in the territory, which can be defined as an example of an historical landscape modified by the civil engineering.