1189 | Medals

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ISABEL II (1833-1868). Inauguration of the Barcelona-Mataró Railway. (Ae. 78.51g / 52mm). 1848. Engravers and design: Lorenzale and Jubany. (RAH-602). Almost Extremely Fine. Beat on the edge.

On October 28, 1848, twenty days after his first trip and for scheduling reasons, the first public-use railway on the peninsula was inaugurated. We specify the peninsula because the first Spanish railway had been put into circulation in 1839 on the island of Cuba, on the Havana-Bejucal section. Even so, the Barcelona-Mataró is considered one of the icons of the beginning of the industrialization process in Spain and was the first step in the extension of the railway network in Spain that continued in the 1950s with the Madrid-Aranjuez line, the Barcelona-Granollers and Xátiva-Valencia among others.