Does anyone know when the current Fuengirola railway station was opened?

[Interest]

Hi everyone, I'm looking for info on the Fuengirola railway station (Malaga, Spain). It used to be at street level but was built underground when the line was put underground but I can't seem to find anything about when it happened. I know there was a major remodel of the line in the 1970s and in the early 00s the street above the line was remodelled but that's about it. In one of the old threads there was a link to some history that I was hoping would shed some light but it looks like that's gone from the web now. http://ferropedia.es/mediawiki/index.php/Línea_de_Málaga_a_Fuengirola_(vía_ancha)#Historia

Thanks

 

[Wychwood93]

Use this link for suburban railways in the Malaga area: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrocarriles_Suburbanos_de_Málaga
and scroll down to the Malaga-Fuengirola section. This has a photo of the old station, which is now a tourist office. Enlarge the photo and it became a tourist office in 1992 - which narrows it down a bit!

 

[Interest]

Use this link for suburban railways in the Malaga area: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrocarriles_Suburbanos_de_Málaga
and scroll down to the Malaga-Fuengirola section. This has a photo of the old station, which is now a tourist office. Enlarge the photo and it became a tourist office in 1992 - which narrows it down a bit!

Thanks I did find this too, which in a roundabout way seems to point to it being moved underground as part of the 70s rebuild. https://www.airmalaga.com/the-train-malaga-fuengirola-turns-35/

edit to add: There's also this that has some pretty cool pics of what the line used to look like at the fuengirola end https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga...s-its-halfcentury-with-20250728081558-nt.html

 

[Sir Felix Pole]

Another article here.

The line was widened to Spanish standard gauge, it was electrified, parts were made double track (the original plan was for all of them to be included) and bridges were improved. The Málaga terminus station went underground at the main Málaga-Córdoba station (now called Málaga Maria Zambrano), rather than the FEVE Malaga port station previously used. Torremolinos and Fuengirola stations also went underground. New viaducts were constructed over Guadalhorce River, Pan Triste and Arroyo Honda. There was also a 62-span high-level section constructed at the entrance to Fuengirola so as to allow road traffic to continue underneath. There were 12 tunnels constructed on the hillside above Benalmádena and Torremolinos.

The line was re-opened on 31 July 1975 with seven stations: Málaga, San Andres, Campo de Golf-Campamento Benítez, Torremolinos, Arroyo de la Miel, Los Boliches and Fuengirola. One year later the underground single line spur extension to Alameda was opened. the service was 70 trains a day, every half hour from 6am to 11pm.

 

[Grumpy]

Use this link for suburban railways in the Malaga area: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrocarriles_Suburbanos_de_Málaga
and scroll down to the Malaga-Fuengirola section. This has a photo of the old station, which is now a tourist office. Enlarge the photo and it became a tourist office in 1992 - which narrows it down a bit!

Bit nit-picky but the tourist office has since relocated.

 

[Cloud Strife]

I did find this too, which in a roundabout way seems to point to it being moved underground as part of the 70s rebuild.

Yup, until very recently, the station was pretty much as it was when it opened, complete with broken escalators and more. The problem is that the rebuild was done on the (relative) cheap, and it was never intended to become the heavily used behemoth that it is today. The elevated section in particular is a massive problem, because there's simply no way to rebuild this without incurring huge costs and massive disruption.

This might interest you as well: https://trenesytiempos.blogspot.com/2017/05/cronicas-de-la-via-estrecha-de-malaga.html