Buenavista is a commuter railway station in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

. The station provided intercity train services from

Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (better known as N de M and especially in its final years as FNM) was Mexico's state owned railroad company from 1938 to 1998, and prior to 1938 (dating from the regime of Porfirio Díaz), a major railroad con ...

. Since June 2008, the station serves as the terminus of the

Tren Suburbano The Tren Suburbano () is an electric suburban rail system in Mexico City. It is operated by Ferrocarriles Suburbanos with concessioned trains from Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF). It was designed to complement the extensive ...

commuter rail service. Atop the ground-level station and tracks is one of the city's largest shopping malls,

Forum Buenavista Forum Buenavista is a shopping mall built atop the Buenavista Station in central Mexico City, where Avenida de los Insurgentes meets Eje 1 Norte. It was developed by GICSA, opened in 2009, and as of 2015 it was one of the ten largest malls in G ...

. The adjacent

Buenavista metro station Buenavista is a station on the Mexico City Metro, in the Colonia Buenavista neighborhood of the Cuauhtémoc borough. It is the southwestern terminal station of Line B (the green-on-silver line, Buenavista-Ciudad Azteca). It also offers conn ...

is also the terminus of

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Line B, that runs from this station to Ciudad Azteca in the

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. Additionally, three Metrobús lines serve the area.

History

Originally, the station was owned by

(N de M), but after the company was privatized, the station was closed. Ferrocarriles Suburbanos acquired the station and was remodeled beginning in 2007 in preparation for the launch of commuter rail service to

Cuautitlán Izcalli Cuautitlán Izcalli () is a city and municipality in the north of State of Mexico, Mexico. The name comes from Náhuatl and means 'your house among the trees.' City and municipal seat By 2005 Mexican national intermediary (''conteo'') census f ...

in the

. In 2012 a large enclosed shopping mall was opened on three floors topping the ground-level station and tracks,

, anchored by a

Cinépolis Cinépolis is a Mexican and international movie theater chain. Its name means ''City of Cinema'' and its slogan is ''La Capital del Cine'' ( en, the Capital of Cinema). Cinépolis was the biggest cineplex chain in Mexico, with 427 theaters in ...

multiplex cinema and a

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. In addition to being a terminus of Metro Line B, the railway station is also a stop for three Metrobús lines, Mexico City's

bus rapid transit Bus rapid transit (BRT), also called a busway or transitway, is a bus-based public transport system designed to have much more capacity, reliability and other quality features than a conventional bus system. Typically, a BRT system includes ...

system.

Gallery

File:Ferrocarril Suburbano de la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México estación Buenavista.jpg, A CAF

EMU The emu () (''Dromaius novaehollandiae'') is the second-tallest living bird after its ratite relative the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus ''Dromaius''. The emu' ...

UT-447 train at the platforms File:Estacion Buenavista del Ferrocarril Suburbano de la Ciudad de México - panoramio.jpg, Platforms File:Forum Buenavista, entrada (2022).jpg, Forum Buenavista's main access and the station's access zone File:Interior de la estación de tren Buenavista.jpg, Southern lobby

References

External links

* {{Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City Railway stations opened in 2008 Buenavista