The Museo del Ferrocarril (Railway Museum) in Madrid, Spain, is one of the largest historic railroad collections in Europe.

It has been suggested that he was influenced by Henri de Dion's Galerie des Machines, one of the metal-framed buildings erected for the Exposition Universelle (1878) in Paris.

Locomotives in the collection include: The museum has preserved part of a hydraulic system, developed by the Italian firm Bianchi and Servettaz, which was used to control points switching and signalling at Algodor.

Several films set in Russia, but shot mostly in Spain, used the station as location: Dr Zhivago (1965) by David Lean,[5] Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) by Franklin J. Schaffner and Reds (1981) by Warren Beatty.

Television series include Televisión Española's Cuéntame cómo pasó, Netflix's Cable Girls and Antena 3's The Time in Between and Velvet.