abstract:El Tren de la Fresa or the Strawberry Train is an excursión train operated over the RENFE line between Madrid and Aranjuez, constructed in 1851 as the second railway line in Spain. The original purpose of the railway was to connect Spain’s capital with the Royal Palace of Aranjuez.
At the height of the strawberry boom, train stations along the Strawberry Coast would have had queues of strawberry growers, horses and carts of up to a mile long waiting to get their fruits on the train.