As with other railway lines, the origin of this line hails back to the time of General Primo de Rivera and his Public Works Minister, the Count of Guadalhorce.
The railway line expansion plan, designed in 1926, envisaged the creation of new lines in order establish a genuine railway network. This line was conceived as a link between Talavera de la Reina (Toledo) and Villanueva de la Serena (Badajoz), through the monastic town of Guadalupe (Cáceres), thus linking the valleys of the Tagus and the Guadiana rivers.
Work started pace at the end of the 1920s. Many workers, together with former peasants, bored tunnels in the untouched mountains and raised thousands of tonnes of concrete over the rivers to build slim, elegant viaducts.
The war and its disasters struck a sledgehammer blow to this project. Later, the aftermath of the war, the automobile, and the depopulation of the countryside prevented the railway project from being finished. The works languished into oblivion. At the time of their abandonment, all the grading had been completed, except for some 20 km in the Villuercas segment, and the stations were already ready to receive the lines and signals. The line was even laid from Villanueva to Logrosán, a line segment which was handed over to Renfe (the Spanish national railway company), and which even had railway line employees – but even those lines are but a memory today.