The demolition works of the centenary La Sagrera station will begin next week, according to sources from Adif, who have not specified the exact day or the procedure to be followed, indicating that it is still under study. This action is part of the urban development plan for the area, coordinated by Barcelona Sagrera Alta Velocidad (BSAV), a company comprising Adif, the Barcelona City Council, and the Generalitat.

Prior to the demolition, just before Easter Week, the vehicle parking lot was emptied and the entire perimeter of the station was fenced off to ensure safety and prevent damage to the surroundings. In the preceding days, window panes were also removed, and workers also extracted asbestos-cement residues from inside the old building.

The building, erected in the second decade of the 20th century on Baixada de la Sagrera street, functioned as a reception and dispatch center for small parcels by train in Barcelona until 1990. Until last December, it housed Adif's offices from which the construction work for the new La Sagrera high-speed station was coordinated.

Beneath the station lies an air-raid shelter, until recently unknown, which was not listed in the 1938 public shelter census. Archaeologists consider these tunnels a unique case due to their typology and characteristics, corresponding to a private shelter that served the old freight station, a strategic point during the Civil War. This bunker, 90 meters long and four meters deep, with two main galleries, is designed to withstand 100-kilo bombs. The councillor for the Sant Andreu district, Marta Villanueva, has assured that the demolition of the station will not affect the refuge, which is currently being studied and documented using laser scanning.