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For other uses of this term, see line C-2.

The C-2 Line is the least crowded of the three lines of Renfe Cercanías Bilbao and belongs to the old Ferrocarril de Bilbao to Portugalete and Triano. The line starts at Bilbao-Abando station and reaches Muskiz, crossing the municipalities of Bilbao, Baracaldo, Sestao, Trápaga Valley and Ortuella and Musques. This line has a total of 18 stops (stations or stops), which will become 19 with the construction of the Urbinaga intermodal station.

It has the characteristic that part of the route is single track, which makes it difficult to increase frequencies or the passage of freight trains only having double track in the section that shares with the line C-1. To give way to the trains that go in different senses the stations of Galindo, Trapagaran, Ortuella, Putxeta and Muskiz have double track where a train has to wait for the one that goes in the opposite direction to continue its march.

History Triano Railway

This industrial railway called "de Triano" was put into service in several stages: the first on June 26, 1865 between the shipyards of San Nicolás in Sestao and Ortuella (8 km). On March 19, 1888, the Bilbao-Portugalete railway line was inaugurated between Bilbao and Desierto (Baracaldo-Desert), and this entailed its connection with the Triano railroad in the direction of Ortuella in 1889 (using the section of the Sestao a diversion) creating the Bilbao Railway to Portugalete and Triano (BPT), finally on 26 July 1890 the line was concluded with the stretch between Ortuella and the end of the line in Musques (12.9 km) connecting the Zone Although in principle the railway line was intended for mining goods, due to the competition of the other parallel narrow-gauge railway mines (La Franco-Belgian Railway and La Orconera Railway) more to the transport of travelers since the 1920s. However, thanks to the industrial branch with the factory of Babcock & Wilcox continued to maintain its industrial activity for decades, arising in this company numerous locomotives both steam and diesel; the Trápaga stop was also linked to the General Electric Company factory (now Alstom and ABB) and generated numerous special transports. However, given the difficulty of issuing special trains, which were increasingly long and heavy, and these were not numerous enough to justify a duplication in the tracks in addition to the bottleneck that formed on the beach of Desierto-Baracaldo, finally these goods began to leave by means of trucks until the near port of Bilbao to become an exclusive line of passengers. Variation of Sur Ferroviaria (C-1 and C-2) South Railway variant in Bilbao. Original layout. Tracing after the construction of the South Railway Variant. Trace of Renfe Feve.

Later on, thanks to the work of the Bilbao Ría 2000 company, the South Railroad variant was inaugurated, changing the layout of the line between the Olabeaga and Bilbao-La Naja stations. Thus, the stations of San Mamés, Autonomía, Amézola and Zabalburu were opened in 2000, Olabeaga station was modified, and the terminal station of the Cercanías trains became the remodeled Bilbao-Abando station, where they also arrive the long-distance trains, as well as the Cercanías of the line C-3 (Bilbao-Abando-Orduña).

With the inauguration of the Variant Sur Ferroviaria, the Bilbao-La Naja station was closed and Line C-4 was created, between Olabeaga and Bilbao-Parke / Guggenheim stations, which in 2002 would also be closed for reasons urbanisations provoking the

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