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Local passenger train A mixed train
The station The mine
Aqua Amarga (Spanish: Bitter Water) is homage to the railways of South East Spain
largely built by mining companies to extract minerals from an area of mountain and desert.
For further details see Don and Faith Gaunt website and book.
(see http://www.faydon.com/index.html and http://www.faydon.com/GSSR%20Flyer.html)
A passenger and mixed trains pass at Aqua Amarga
Local passenger train
A mixed train
Shunting the iron mine siding
The station
Aqua Amarga is a passing place and siding serving an iron ore mine in the middle of nowhere so only basic
facilities are needed. An old coach is used as the station building and another old coach as Cantina de la
Estación (station canteen). The canteen is mostly used by hard drinking miners and railway workers.
The Mine at Aqua Amarga
Two main tunnels are driven into the hillside the cross tunnels are driven between the two main tunnels
and the iron ore extracted. This arrangement gives good ventilation and relatively good safety. After
extraction the ore is trammed along the narrow gauge to the loading dock.
