Madrid Atocha
The repurposed trainshed designed by Alberto de Palacio y Elissague and Alexandre Gustave Eiffel in 1892 is now a tropical garden where passengers can relax before going through the airport-standard security gates onto the new platforms behind the camera.
Atocha is the Spanish name for Esparto Grass which was the main material used in British paper-making from the mid-19th Century. This material was imported to Leith for the Midlothian paper mills and to Aberdeen Harbour for the Donside and Culter Mills transported by rail.
Location: Madrid Atocha
Original line: RENFE
Photographer: Charlie Niven
Contact photographer: Charlie Niven
Date: 08/05/2019
Image number: 73741
