If there is an emblem of Torrevieja, it is its salt flats. This historic source of wealth for the region was not far from a railway project granted to a company with an "exotic" name: the Compañía de los Ferrocarriles Andaluces (Andalusian Railway Company). In 1882, this company was awarded the concession for the construction of a railway linking the cities of Alicante and Murcia, a project that it never controlled. In the summer of 1884, the company inaugurated this line that ran parallel to the coast, thereafter moving further and further inland towards the provincial capital of Murcia. 

Located about 25 km from Albatera Station were the abundant Torrevieja salt flats, a destination that became of interest to this railway that, in order to reach it, was forced to build a branch line, which came into service at the same time as the main line. The line was centred on the salt flats to such a degree that it never connected with the port, being only designed for transporting salt and other agricultural products inland. Its rectilinear layout seemed to avoid the villages, except for the end of the line at the Torrevieja salt flats.

From the sixties of the last century, this small line started to decline. In January 1970 the line stopped transporting passengers and was used solely for transporting salt. Its traffic remained irregular until, in October 1986, one of the usual floods of the Segura destroyed part of the tracks. This resulted in the line being officially closed in 1988. Its rails survived for a few more years, until the construction of the AP-7 motorway buried its remains –all that is left now is the greenway section and a few more kilometres inland as far as Rojales.