A woman claimed she ‘married’ a train station called Daidra after spending 36 years in love with it.

Carol Santa Fe, 45, from San Diego, California, claimed she has been love-struck with Santa Fe train station since she was nine years old.

The woman said she has ‘sex’ with the station mentally and identifies herself as an objectum sexual — a person who is sexually attracted to inanimate objects and structures, reports dailymail.co.uk.

It is a worldwide debate whether the phenomenon is a sexuality, fetish or mental condition.

Ms Santa Fe said: ‘I am married to the Santa Fe train station - her name is Daidra.

‘We didn’t start a relationship until 2011 but I had been in love with the station since I was a young girl.

‘When we got married, I stood there and I told her that I take it as my partner.

‘It was the happiest day of our lives.’

Every day the volunteer support worker takes a 45 minute bus ride to the station to spend time with the building.

She said: ‘When I get there I say hello to her - I then walk around the block circling around her, trying not to let anyone notice I am talking.

‘There is a private bit where two walls meet, I go there to touch her, which I do by leaning against her with my clothes on.

‘When I’m touching her, I feel as though it actually holds me and kisses me.

‘I don’t have physical sex with the station in public, I want to be respectful.

‘I wouldn’t do that with a human in public so why would I do it in this case.

‘I do have sex with Daidra in my mind when I stand there.

‘I especially like when I hear the trains rev up their engines - it turns me on.’

Ms Santa Fe - who has lived in California since she was three - claims the train station is the love of her life despite being in a previous relationship with a man.

She added: ‘I loved a human once before, his name was Tom and we were together for 18 months.

‘But it didn’t work out and I felt amazing when I got into a relationship with Diadra because she told that she would never leave me.

‘We first consummated our love a few years ago when I felt the wall behind me, and I felt this energy.

‘I came close to an orgasm and I was scared I’d get caught by the station staff.

‘I don’t ever want the security guards to find out - I am a closeted objectum sexual.’

Santa Fe discovered she was an objectum sexual after she searched online ‘I am in love with a building’.

She is not the first to confess her love for inanimate objects.

Erica Eiffel, an objectum sexual, famously married Paris’s Eiffel Tower in 2007.

Another well-known objectum sexual is Eklöf Berliner-Mauer, who married the Berlin wall in 1979 and was the first person to come forward with objectum sexuality.