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Origins > Carril’s Expansion Vilagarcía's Takeoff Administrative Comission of the Port Effects of the War and Postwar Period Incipient Organization Iberport and Development Plan

Carril’s Expansion The outstanding expansion of the emigrants wave, the railway construction between Carril and Santiago and the settlement of several ship agents are the three factors that, along the last period of the 19th century, force the expansion of the Port of Carril and, later, provoke the leadership of the Port of Vilagarcía. Regarding the emigrants movement, we have to point out that Galicia exports labour often in humiliating conditions. South American countries carry out a surprising publicity with tempting offers for a starving population that does not doubt to embark on the search for a better life. The railway project between Santiago and Carril was written by an English engineer named Thomas Rumball settled in Lisbon, and its definitive approval was in 1860. The official inauguration of the railway line took place in Santiago, the fifteenth day of September 1873, “…with bells ringing and twenty-five bombs, illuminated official buildings and a huge hot-air-balloon rose into the Compostelan sky.” The maritime companies settled in Carril create a bourgeoisie identified with the local development. During the second half of the 19th century, important names like Salvador Buhigas y Prat and Santiago Sierra appear, both representatives of the Pacific Steam Navigation and Vasco-Andaluza Company respectively, as well as Ricardo Urioste, representative of Mala Real Inglesa and Ricardo Caamaño, representative of Navegación a Vapor. > Photographic Support

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