It was around the year 1885 when the Compañía del Ferrocarril del Norte, the company that used to run the Zaragoza-Miranda line, among others, opened a modest narrow gauge railway linking Tudela station with the city of Tarazona in the province of Zaragoza. The railway, nicknamed “El Tarazonica”, was notoriously unreliable and slow, so much so that the locals also used to call it “El Escachamatas”.

After taking over the ailing line in 1953, Renfe widened the gauge to embark on a new phase that they hoped would be more successful. But coaches and trucks had already cornered the transport market in the area and so in 1972, after several years of relentless decline, the Tarazonica was closed. Its rusted and forgotten rails were removed some twenty years later.