On 24 May 1982, the Basque Government approved a new publicly-owned company, Eusko Trenbideak/Ferrocarriles Vasco, S.A., whose corporate purpose would be to streamline the management of the metric-gauge railways transferred by the Spanish central government between 1978 and 1979. Therefore, May 2022 marks 40 years from that first public initiative that has led to Euskotren becoming the leading transport operator in the Basque Country over those four decades.

Euskotren, the publicly-owned company answering to the Basque Government’s Ministry for Spatial Planning, Housing and Transport, today opened a permanent exhibition at the Larreineta funicular railway premises. Its aim is to showcase the uniqueness of this means of transport and its importance in the tourist and economic development of the Trápaga mining valley. The exhibition shows the general public an important part of our history and offers a new tourist attraction to enjoy the protect natural area that is home to La Arboleda and the Peñas Negras Interpretation Centre, among others.