(Llíria – Valencia Line)

From Llíria to Benaguasil, six of the thirty kilometres of railway that once joined Valencia to Llíria have been recovered to create this greenway.

Project currently at the research and development stage.

The origins of this Iberian-gauge (1,668 mm) railway line can be found in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when a railway connection from Valencia to Teruel and Calatayud was planned. This never came to fruition: only thirty kilometres of the proposed route were ever operational, with the end of the line at Llíria.

In 1881, the Spanish government granted a licence to join Valencia to Teruel along the River Turia to engineer Rafael Valls David, who drew up the plans for the line, and to the Sociedad de los Ferrocarriles de Valencia y Aragón. Between 1889 and 1890, the Valencia–Manises, Manises–Vilamarxant and Vilamarxant–Llíria sections were opened. 

The line was loss-making in terms of passenger transport, as the journey between Valencia and Llíria could also be made with the Sociedad Valenciana de Tranvías low-cost railway line, opened in 1888.

In 1940, Norte took over the route and the central station became the Estación del Norte in Valencia. In 1941, Iberian-gauge railways were nationalised, and Renfe was created. From 1985 until 1992, due the line’s financial losses and the emergence of new works and infrastructures, sections of the route gradually closed for passenger transport. 

Part of the Vilamarxant–Llíria stretch – Llíria–Benaguasil, specifically – is now a greenway thanks to a collaboration between the Valencian Government and Benaguasil Town Council.

Railway heritage is present all along the greenway. The old Llíria and Benaguasil stations, built in 1888–89, are still standing. Further south, near Vilamarxant and off the current official greenway route, is the extraordinary 250 m railway bridge built across the Turia in the late 19th century.