The demolition work on the historic Sant Feliu station, one of the oldest in Spain, has been completed in just 48 hours. The machines
They entered piecemeal after the eviction of the activist who had occupied the building for half a year demanding its preservation and now only rubble remains in the place.
The only thing that has been saved are some plaques and twelve rose windows located at the top of the station facades, among which there are different models corresponding to different periods, as well as the wooden beams that supported the original structure of the building and that They will be guarded by the Sant Feliu City Council.
The luminous staffs that were attached to the façade and two plaques that were visible on the platform towards Barcelona have also been safeguarded. One of them belonged to the Geographic and Statistical Institute and marked the 34.1 meters high of the station above the average level of the Mediterranean Sea in Alicante. It is a distinctive and iconic element of old railway stations and Adif sources consider that “it is possibly the most valuable of everything preserved.”
The other was a plaque commemorating the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the railway in the city. It was installed in 2004 to celebrate the anniversary with the support of the Sant Feliu Town Hall, the Baix Llobregat Regional Studies Centre, the Hospitalet Studies Centre.
The preservation of these elements is the result of the commitment of the railway infrastructure administrator (Adif) and the Sant Feliu City Council, which at the time spoke of preserving original elements with historical value to integrate them into a memorial of the future underground station, such and how the participants in a citizen consultation voted.
The rest of the station is now part of history. In that same place, the excavation of the land will begin in the next few days to continue advancing in the burying of the train tracks, which will have the new underground station in that precise place.
