165085 20251212165957.0 doi 10.1177/00225266251374547 sideral 146648 ART-2025-146648 eng Esteban-Oliver, Guillermo Universidad de Zaragoza A well-tracked path? Assessing the factors behind the expansion of Spain's nineteenth-century railway network 2025 This study investigates the determining factors of railway expansion in nineteenth-century Spain, a period characterised by limited political interference in route planning but substantial public subsidies for construction. For the analysis, we developed a new dataset on municipal railway access from 1848 to 1910 and used Cox regression to assess the key factors influencing network development. The results show that economic criteria prevailed until 1877. From then on, the focus shifted to political and administrative interests, but without abandoning the economic interest. This finding nuances the interpretation of railway expansion in Spain as primarily driven by political and nation-building goals, showing instead a dynamic interaction between economic and administrative priorities over time. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Sanchís-Maldonado, Víctor Barquín Gil, Rafael 4014 480 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Economía Aplicada Área Hª e Instituc.Económ. (2025), [34 pp.] Journal of Transport History 0022-5266 2781511 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/165085/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1002297 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/165085/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:165085 articulos driver 2025-12-12-14:42:21 ARTICLE