The life and soul of the station
hroughout its active life,
Madrid-Delicias Station was the workplace for thousands of
railway workers, whose professional life took place within its
walls.
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, there were around 1,100
workers in Madrid-Delicias Station, with women accounting for
barely fifty. Madrid-Delicias featured personnel from all the
different services, the most numerous being that of Material and
Traction (with three hundred employees), followed by the
Operation Service, which was in charge of regulating and
controlling railway traffic (with two hundred and eighty). The
third most numerous group was auditing (with one hundred and
forty-seven), followed by track and facility maintenance (with
one hundred and seventeen employees). The rest were mainly
administrative staff.
The memory of some of these workers, with names and surnames,
still remains since their photographs, due to different
circumstances, appeared in several publications.