Calle del Ferrocarril
It takes its name from the railway line that ran along its path for over a century, linking the Norte and Atocha stations through Arganzuela.
Along this strip of Arganzuela ran, from 1864, the loop line that linked the Norte station (today Príncipe Pío) with Atocha, encircling the south of Madrid in a semicircle of some eight kilometers. It passed in a cutting beside the Delicias station and joined the freight stations of Imperial and Peñuelas. The calle del Ferrocarril arose over that same route and took its name from it.
For decades the trench split the district in two, an iron border between the built-up Madrid and the empty lots of the outskirts. In 1931 the Compañía del Norte sank the section underground, and by around 1935 the cutting was covered by a boulevard. The street kept the name of the train that could no longer be seen but still rolled below.
The last convoy left Peñuelas on 5 June 1987. Then came the Green Railway Corridor, and gardens and walks were traced over the old track.