This machine is a Lever, normally equipped with a counterweight, intended to actuate some track device.
It is made in iron, and was important at the beginig of the trains in Ourense.
This place (Parque dos Carrileiros) and the page of turism (
visit link) tells us "Ourense is a city with a great railway tradition, since here took place the first connection of Galicia with the rest of the Peninsula. If your trip coincides with the weekend, on Sunday you have an inexcusable appointment at the Carrileiros de Foula Railway Park , where you will discover this exciting world and even be able to ride a scale locomotive. The enclosure has a circuit of almost 500 meters of track along which the trains run, in a route with all possible details: a viaduct, two tunnels, four level crossings, stations exp In its exhibition room the details of the history of the railway are explained in Ourense."
Only is open Sundays from 11:30 to 13:30. August closed.