Summary - TST 27
TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES
Anselmo CARRETERO GÓMEZ y José Ángel AZNAR SÁNCHEZ
El mármol de Macael. Evolución de los medios de transporte
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SUMMARY TST 27
Key Words:
Marble, Macael, transport, history.
[ Abstract ]
Quarry material is normally used near its extraction place. However, we often find that it is not the case, especially with decorative rocks. This happens to the marble from Macael (Almería, Southern Spain), which has had for centuries a great demand to beatify many significant buildings. The means of marble transport have evolved over the time. Till the end of the 19th Century, ox carts were used to carry the quarry material from the explotations to the cutting establishments, as well as to transport the processed products to its final destination or to the coast fot its shipping. From 1894 on, the train became an important means of transport to take the marble out of the region and since 1950 lorries have replaced the carts to take the quarry to the processing firms. Since then the road transport has become more important than the train. It was finally completedly replaced in 1984, when the train line Guadix-Almendricos was closed. Nowadays, road transport is the most common means of transport to take the product to its final destination in Spain and Europe, or to the ports where it will be shipped.
[ Abstract ]
Quarry material is normally used near its extraction place. However, we often find that it is not the case, especially with decorative rocks. This happens to the marble from Macael (Almería, Southern Spain), which has had for centuries a great demand to beatify many significant buildings. The means of marble transport have evolved over the time. Till the end of the 19th Century, ox carts were used to carry the quarry material from the explotations to the cutting establishments, as well as to transport the processed products to its final destination or to the coast fot its shipping. From 1894 on, the train became an important means of transport to take the marble out of the region and since 1950 lorries have replaced the carts to take the quarry to the processing firms. Since then the road transport has become more important than the train. It was finally completedly replaced in 1984, when the train line Guadix-Almendricos was closed. Nowadays, road transport is the most common means of transport to take the product to its final destination in Spain and Europe, or to the ports where it will be shipped.