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Gatekeeper's hut

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Gatekeeper's hut

Name: Gatekeeper's hut
Rating: 1.5

Recommended by 2 cyclists out of 4

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Location: Luque, Penibetica, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain

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Willem VS

April 1, 2025

Crossroads with kilometre point 2.3 of the CO-6204 road and the beginning of the protected area of the Laguna del Salobral nature reserve. At this point is the first of the rehabilitated railway buildings, of all the buildings that mark the railway line.
This house belonged to a guard, a person responsible for limiting the passage of vehicles and people at a level crossing, usually between the railway and a busy road. This work, now automated thanks to computer systems, once required a practically continuous presence, so the worker and his family settled in these buildings.

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Juano Mesas 🚴‍♂️🎼👨‍🎓✍️

April 1, 2025

This hut is an example of the rudimentary facilities where the gatekeeper and his family lived.
Their job was to prevent vehicles from crossing the railway when the gatekeeper was raising or lowering a barrier (sometimes this barrier didn't even exist), thus ensuring that no accidents occurred during the crossing.

Because the gatekeepers needed to remain at these crossings, they often lived with their families in these huts, where they occasionally had a piece of land to grow vegetables from the gardens to feed their families.

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