Main building in moderate condition. The station is still in use. | See map. | |
Engine shed, now completely boarded up. | See map. | |
Loco water pipe manufactured by Cowans Sheldon & Co. Ltd. | See map. | |
Approaching the station from Puerto Lumbreras | See map. | |
Goods loading platform. | See map. | |
Interior of the main building. | See map. | |
The inside of the engine shed, which seems to have been converted into offices. Now in a very poor state. | See map. | |
Iron supports made by John Lysaght and Co. around 1887. | See map. | |
Goods loading area, now abandoned. | See map. | |
Water feed pipe made by Cowan's Sheldon Ltd. in 1889. | See map. | |
Front façade of Almendricos Station. | See map. | |
Inspection pit for running repairs on locomotives. | See map. | |
Inauguration. Group of guests at Empalme (Almendricos). 24th March 1890. Gustave Gillman. Archivo de Murcia. Interestingly, the train had to include a guards van full of drinking water for the guests and the banquet as there was no potable water on site. | See map. | |
The remains of the huge (6,700m2) Almendricos Ochre store. In front of the store, one can see the loading platform. This area is where the turntable was situated. There was a private track that served the warehouse. The ochre came from Cabezo de la Jara 11.6km away and was transported by train to Águilas between 1921 and 1936. | See map. | |
The front wall of the ochre works, closed in 1936. | See map. | |
What appears to be a bath for washing the ochre. | See map. | |
Trench where the line once passed and the wagons were loaded with ochre. | See map. | |
The door through which the track passed. On the other side was a turntable for rotating each wagon individually to be connected to a train. | See map. | |
The door of the ochre works where the wagons full of ochre were individually rotated through 90 degrees on a turntable so as to be connected to a GSSR train. | See map. | |
Some ochre found in the works in Almendricos. | See map. | |
Part of the original set of points manufactured by The Anderston Foundry Co of Glasgow. | See map. |