The 8.3 kilometres (5.2 mi) long Decauville railway with rails weighing 9,5 kg/m (19 lbs/yard) ran over two metal bridges, of which one was designed Gustave Eiffel and erected by Fives-Lille.

[2][1] The track on the site of the sugar mill was 172 metres (564 ft) long.

[3] Growing sugar beets and producing sugar from them caused a major structural change in the Vega de Granada at the end of the 19th century.

[4] The landlord and businessman Julio Quesada y Piedrola, Duke of San Pedro de Galatino, Count of Benalúa and Señorío de Láchar planned and contracted the sugar mill and the industrial railway during or shortly after the Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris.

King Alfonso XIII, a personal friend of the Count of Benalúa, visited and used the railway to travel to the sugar factory.