Friday 2 December at 7:00 p.m. the book 'La vía férrea Baeza-Utiel. El tren que perdió el interior valenciano' (The Baeza-Utiel railway. The train that lost the Valencian interior) will be presented at the Casa de la Cultura of Utiel by authors José Alabau Montoya and Ignacio Latorre Zacarés. The book was one of the finalists of the 17th edition of the Demetrio Ribes Award.
The idea of connecting France and África through a railway which will cross from North to South in the Spanish Territory, thinking of a possible connexion with the Spanish and French protectorates in the north of the African continent, had been on the minds of the spanish and french politicians since the second half of the 19th century.
One of those projects was approved during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera (1926): the transverse line that, from Baeza (Jaén), went until Saint Girons, in the south of France, passing through the provinces of Jaén, Albacete, València, Teruel and Lleida, as an alternative line to the existing railway radial system.
The study focuses mainly in the Baeza-Utiel railway, which was part of the first line of the macroproject and covered a distance of aproximately 370 km, most specifically, in the Valencian part of the 4th section of this line, which passed between Albacete and Utiel.
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