Tucumán Mitre railway station
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Tucumán
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Facade of the station.
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| Location | Corrientes 1045, Tucumán Argentina |
| Owned by | Government of Argentina |
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Trenes Argentinos (Passengers) NCA (Freight) |
| Line(s) | FC Mitre |
| Tracks | 7 |
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| Platform levels | 6 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1891 |
Tucumán is a train station in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán of Tucumán Province, Argentina, and terminus of Ferrocarril Mitre.
The station was built and firstly operated by the Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway (BA&R) and then added to Ferrocarril Mitre network in 1948. It is currently operated by two companies: State-owned Trenes Argentinos (for passenger services) and private Nuevo Central Argentino (NCA) that runs freight trains on the line.
The station was inaugurated in February 1891, after the Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway extended its lines to the city of Tucumán. The company had originally conceived a network to the city of Campana, Buenos Aires although it the Government of Argentina granted BAR permission to extend lines to the North of Argentina, reaching Zárate and Rosario in 1885.
In 1896 a weekly express train (with no intermediate stop) began to run from Buenos Aires to Tucumán, with a journey time of 26 hours. In Tucumán station passengers transferred Ferrocarril Central Norte trains that allowed them to reach Northern provinces of Salta and Jujuy.
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