Steam locomotive number 3 of the Langreo Railway. Built in 1852. Photographed in 1887.
Ferrocarril de Langreo or FC de Langreo (FCL) was a Spanish railway company which operated a 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge[1] line, in the Autonomous Community of Asturias, in northern Spain. It was the third train line constructed in Spain and was built during the 1850s.
The private 50 km (31 mi) railway focused on moving coal and iron ore from the mines of Laviana and Langreo and the factory of La Felguera to Gijon. It was the only non-urban Spanish railway built to near-standard gauge, which often led it to look for second-hand rolling stock, mainly from the United States. This included the purchase of:
Five 2-8-0 steam locomotives in 1959 from the Alaska Railroad ARR 401 402 404 405 406 which kept their former numbers [2][3]
