 The Bidasoa railway started from modest beginnings, running mining trains between Irún and the mining area of Endarlatsa. This first 10 Km section, commissioned in 1888, was extended upriver as far as Elizondo in 1916. These 41 Km were just a small part of an ambitious project to provide a rail link between Doneztebe and Pamplona.
 Eventually, the project was reduced to a stretch between Irún-Elizondo which followed the course of the Bidasoa to the capital of the Baztán Valley. Its modest existence was only interrupted when major flooding in 1953 swept away part of the tracks, as happened to the Plazaola railway at the same time. Service was restored, but the line was finally and definitively shut down on New Year’s Eve, 1956.
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