Andalusia used to have one of the most comprehensive railway networks on the Spanish mainland. The Seville to Cordoba route was covered by two companies, MZA and Andaluces.

The former inaugurated its line in 1859 along the Guadalquivir valley, a route that still exists today. Andaluces’ line, completed in 1885, came later and had to take a more sinuous and complicated route through Marchena. At Utrera trains from Cordoba could also take a shortcut to Cadiz without having to pass through Seville.

After the private companies were absorbed by Renfe en 1941, the cross-country line gradually lost out to the main Guadalquivir line, which was more direct and followed a much easier route for the trains. So, after a period of steady decline, it was definitively shut down in 1970, shortly after which all the railway installations were dismantled and removed.