The General Manuel Belgrano Railway (FCGMB) (Spanish: Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano), named after the
Argentine
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politician and military leader
Manuel Belgrano
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, is a railway and the longest of the
Argentine system. It was one of the six State-owned
Argentine
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railway companies formed after President
Juan Perón
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's
nationalisation of the railway network in 1948.
Retiro station is the railway's terminus in
Buenos Aires
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, from which the railway runs to many provinces in the Centre and North of Argentina, such as
Santa Fe,
Córdoba,
Tucumán,
La Rioja
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,
Catamarca,
Chaco,
Santiago del Estero
Santiago del Estero (, Spanish for ''Saint-James-Upon-The-Lagoon'') is the capital of Santiago del Estero Province in northern Argentina. It has a population of 252,192 inhabitants, () making it the twelfth largest city in the country, with a surf ...
,
Salta
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and
Jujuy
San Salvador de Jujuy (), commonly known as Jujuy and locally often referred to as San Salvador, is the capital and largest city of Jujuy Province in northwest Argentina. Also, it is the seat of the Doctor Manuel Belgrano Department. It lies near ...
.
In the metropolitan section of the city of Buenos Aires, Ferrocarril Belgrano is divided into two lines,
Belgrano Norte and
Belgrano Sur, currently operated by
Private
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companies
Ferrovías
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and
Argentren
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respectively.
Passenger trains of Norte Line are only run to Villa Rosa in
Pilar Partido
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The provincial subdivision has a population of about 232,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Pilar, which is aroun ...
. From then on,
freight
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services run to the rest of the network, operated by State-owned company
Belgrano Cargas
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. Some short-distance passenger services are also operated by another State company,
Trenes Argentinos Operadora Ferroviaria, in Chaco Province.
.
started services from Córdoba to Tucumán. It was the first
in Argentina, mainly due to economic reasons. It had been built by the Argentine State to expand
-owned company by then.
By the beginning of the 20th century, the national government had built several
railway lines, most of them in the North of Argentina. The
owned a 3,490 km length network. The most important were the