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Alberto Gómez
Last Monday the 13th took place in the Assembly Hall of the Rey Juan Carlos University, the signing of the agreement by which the Railway Foundation grants three locomotives from the collection of historical railway material to be exhibited at the Fuenlabrada Campus. The town will form part of the future sub-headquarters of the Madrid Railway Museum and these pieces will form part of the nucleus of this organization.
The event at the University was attended by the president of Renfe and the Spanish Railways Foundation, Isaías Táboas, the mayor-president of the Fuenlabrada City Council, Javier Ayala, the managing director of the Spanish Railways Foundation, José Carlos Domínguez Curiel , and the president of Cobo Calleja, Javier Pérez Martínez.
Already in October 2020, the former Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, José Luis Ábalos, announced that the Foundation would collaborate with the Consistory in the project to create a sub-headquarters for the Madrid Railway Museum in Fuenlabrada. This action is part of the Foundation's Strategic Plan, one of its three fundamental pillars is to put railway cultural heritage at the service of citizens.
The urban entity of Cobo Calleja is in charge of bringing these railways to the Fuenlabrada Campus of the URJC. They will be transferred from the Stadler Rail Valencia company in Albuixech.
The collection ceded to the Rey Juan Carlos University consists of three very relevant heritage pieces, created in the XNUMXs and early XNUMXs. These three trains are an important example of the three types of railway traction that exist: steam, electric and diesel.
Photo: Spanish Railways Foundation