Antártida Argentina ( en, Argentine Antarctica) is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

located in Rosario, Santa Fe,

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, in the western neighbourhood of Fisherton (intersection of Morrison Avenue and Wilde St.). It is currently operated by state-owned

Trenes Argentinos Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado (abbreviated SOFSE; trading name: Trenes Argentinos Operaciones) is an Argentine state-owned company created in 2008 to operate passenger services in Argentina. It is a subsidiary of the Ferrocarriles Ar ...

(for passenger services) and private

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(freight transport). After railway services were cancelled, the station building served as

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dependent on the Municipality of Rosario. Nevertheless, In July 2022 the station was reopened after

extended services from Rosario Norte to

Cañada de Gómez Cañada de Gómez is a city in the . It is the head town of the Iriondo Department and is located about west of Rosario and from the provincial capital, on National Route 9. It has a population of about 29,000 inhabitants (). The town was fou ...

station.El tren Rosario - Cañada de Gómez se pondrá en marcha oficialmente el 25 de julio
by Ignacio Pellizón on ''El Litoral'', 15 Jul 2022

History

The railroad and the station, then known as Fisherton Station, were built by

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-owned company

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at the beginning of the 1890s. The neighbourhood, originally built to house the company's workers, grew around the station."Historia Ferroviaria de Rosario"
Asociación Rosarina Amigos del Riel, 4 Feb 2009 (Archive) Fisherton station rosario

The station was an intermediate stop of the line that started at

Rosario Central Station Rosario () is the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous city in the country, and is also the most ...

. The trip from this

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to Fisherton took no more than 15 minutes (a comparable bus trip at present may take 45 minutes). After leaving Fisherton, in the periphery of Rosario's urban area, the line served towns west of the city and reached the city of Córdoba. Around 1935–1940, immediately after the "golden age" of Argentine railways, the station managed around 100,000 passengers a year. In 1948 the government of Juan Perón nationalised the Argentine railway network and fused several companies. After Central Córdoba Railway became part of

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network, the station was renamed as "Antártida Argentina" (

Argentine Antarctica Argentine Antarctica ( es, Antártida Argentina or Sector Antártico Argentino) is an area of Antarctica claimed by Argentina as part of its national territory. It consists of the Antarctic Peninsula and a triangular section extending to the ...

), and was left under the control of the State-owned company

Ferrocarriles Argentinos Ferrocarriles Argentinos (abbreviated as FA; ) was a state-owned company that managed the entire Argentine railway system for nearly 45 years. It was formed in 1948 when all the private railway companies were nationalised during Juan Perón's fir ...

, that managed all the railway lines after nationalisation. In 1977 most passenger train services of Argentina were eliminated, and Antártida Argentina station was closed as well. The building was left largely abandoned. The station was restored in the 1990s, though it underwent modifications that have been criticized (e.g. the removal of a protective layer of brick, which may greatly reduce the durability of the building)."Estación Rosario Central - Ataque al corazón de la ciudad"
on Lexia.com (Archive) The facilities were left in charge of the

(NCA), a

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that took over

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services on Mitre Railway tracks. Nevertheless, the NCA lent the station to the Municipality of Rosario to host several cultural activities for the neighbors."Centro Cultural Fisherton"
at the Municipality of Rosario (archived, 19 Dec 2003) After several years Antártida Argentina was reopened as railway station for passenger services in July 2022 after

extended services from Rosario Norte to

station.Servicio regional Rosario - Cañada de Gómez
on Trenes Argentinos (3 Aug 2022)

Operators

;Notes

References

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