History of Lutxana train station

It was built by Compañía del Ferrocarril Hullero de La Robla a Valmaseda in 1902 as the line's last stop.
Shortly thereafter, this company reached an agreement to share use of the railway with Compañía de Ferrocarriles Bilbao-Portugalete.

A bit of history

  • The Lutxana station is located in a strategic point of the industrial tourism of Ezkerraldea. It’s equidistant between the Basque government's Moveable Industrial Heritage Warehouse, which is located in the old moveable parts repair workshops of the historical Compañía Minera Orconera Iron Ore Ltd., and the remains of the historic iron ore loading docks of Orconera, mentioned above, Sociedad Franco-Belga and Sefanitro.
  • The Lutxana train station was built by Compañía del Ferrocarril Hullero de La Robla a Valmaseda in 1902 as the line's last stop. Shortly thereafter, this company reached an agreement to share use of the railway with Compañía de Ferrocarriles Bilbao-Portugalete.

  • One of the idiosyncrasies of the station is that it has used a variety of widths: metre gauge used by the La Robla railway, like the majority of the railways of the Basque rail network of the period, and Iberian gauge (1.67 metres), used on the Portugalete line.

  • This circumstance and its strategic location made this station a key intermodal point both for passenger and goods traffic bound for/departing the major industries on the left bank of the estuary like Sefanitro and Altos Hornos de Vizcaya.