Tucumán Belgrano railway station
|
Tucumán
|
|
|---|---|
| Inter-city rail | |
_de_San_Miguel_de_Tucum%C3%A1n.jpg)
Facade of the station.
|
|
| Location | Calle Marco Avellaneda y San Martín, San Miguel de Tucumán Argentina |
| Coordinates | 26°49′39″S 65°12′56″W / 26.827394°S 65.215554°W |
| Owned by | Government of Argentina |
| Operated by | Trenes Argentinos CyL |
| Line(s) | Belgrano R. |
| Tracks | 9 |
| Construction | |
| Platform levels | 1 |
| History | |
| Opened | October 1876 |
| Closed | March 1993 |
Tucumán Belgrano is a train station in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán of Tucumán Province, Argentina.
The station was originally built and operated by the Córdoba Central Railway and then added to Belgrano Railway network. Nowadays the station is only used for freight services, being operated by state-owned company Trenes Argentinos Cargas y Logística.
The Córdoba Central Railway was founded in 1887 to take over a concession, originally granted to William Temple in 1885, for the construction of a 206 km line, from the Córdoba city suburb of Alta Córdoba to San Francisco. In October 1887 the Government granted the operation of Ferrocarril Central Norte's 884 km line (that included the Alta Córdoba-Tucumán, Frías-Santiago del Estero and Recreo-Chubicha branches) to Hume Hnos. & Cía (owned by The Hume Brothers) for $ 16,000,000.
The Tucumán CC station was the first railway station in the province, placed on the corner of San Martín and Marco Avellaneda streets, being designed by French architect Clodomiro Hidelet and opened to public in October 1876.
After the entire railway network was nationalised during Juan Perón's administration, the station started to be operated by recently formed Ferrocarriles Argentinos. The station remained active as an intermediate stop for trains run by Belgrano Railway to La Quiaca in Jujuy Province. The other station in the city for passenger trains was Tucumán N. (for Central Northern Railway, also transferred to Belgrano Railway in 1948).
...
Wikipedia