The guard rail of the Carrer Aragó train

Picturesque picture of the railway worker on the approximate top of the nook between Carrer Casanova and Carrer Aragó.

The guard rail of the Carrer Aragó train

Picturesque picture of the railway worker on the approximate top of the nook between Carrer Casanova and Carrer Aragó. In a powerful and indeniable means, he displays with authority the thing that provides him a acknowledged command, if not least by way of the strict territory of the prepare barrier. It was not a trivial duty, because it might forestall accidents. We're round 1900.

It was the consequence of an issue of the primary magnitude that had arisen when it was determined that the mandatory focus of the prepare traces materialized alongside Carrer Aragó. Between the choice of building a circulation on the floor or by means of an open trench, happily the latter was chosen due to the mediation nicely exercised by José de Echegaray, not by advantage of being a Nobel Prize winner, however an engineer of roads, canals and ports. In 1882, this railway line was inaugurated alongside Carrer Aragó.

On the approximate top of Carrer Casanova, that massive excavated trench ascended gently and shortly after the road of tracks started to run from there on the floor within the route of Sants, barely diverted in direction of what is going to later be Avinguda Roma . There it's crucial to put a barrier to order and provides safety to the vertical passage.

Therefore additionally the development of the popularly often known as the Mico bridge, for the unique use of pedestrians, which was first fabricated from wooden and was later improved with a concrete construction and cozy entry stairs. This innovation favored the reference to the Ninot neighborhood and its standard market.

For certain, when the prepare handed in entrance of the worker's gate, she was noticed with curiosity by probably the most observant passengers, because it was the one exceptional novelty on such a monotonous journey.

This photograph jogs my memory of one thing related, though a lot funnier, that occurred to the barrier guard of the Montserrat rack prepare, Joan Jorba, after the civil warfare. He got here up with the concept of ​​attracting the eye of the passengers via two small and humorous avenue canines who, not solely wore a comical costume, but additionally greeted with raised entrance legs. The good thought was instantly rewarded by throwing a pig.

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