Promoted by the controversial figure of José Campo, the construction of the Valencia-Tarragona railway line (1862-1868) was the starting point of the Mediterranean Corridor in the Contemporary Age. Not in vain, already in its nineteenth-century conception, the section dealt with in this book was contemplated as part of the connection between Malaga and Naples. The volume selects more than a hundred press reports from the period and of varying ideological bias in order to address, with sufficient historical perspective, heterogeneous aspects relating to the creation of this line: the engineering challenges (where the construction of the bridges over the Turia in Valencia and over the Ebro in Tortosa stand out), the controversies over the route associated with the feverish desire to reap the benefits of the new transport system, the uses and abuses of the promoters (with José Campo defined by some as a ‘champion of modernity’ and by others as a ‘criminal’) and the diversification of the workforce employed (from highly specialised English engineers to underprivileged children who acted as cheap labour). A material then intrinsically associated with modernity for its innovative use in construction and in the flamboyant presses of the newspapers that are the subject of this publication, but above all, for making possible and even giving a name, also in its Castilian meaning - the railway - to a mode of transport hardly dreamt of by mankind for millennia.