Rosario Norte is a

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Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous ci ...

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of Santa Fe,

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. It is located on Aristóbulo del Valle Avenue, at the junction with Callao St., north of the city centre, in the neighbourhood known as

Barrio Pichincha Pichincha is a ''barrio'' (small district or neighbourhood) in the city of Rosario, . It is located on the north-east part of the central area of the city, and its limits are Ovidio Lagos Avenue (former La Plata Avenue), Francia Avenue (former Timb ...

. The station, part of the

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network, is currently operated by two companies, State-owned Operadora Ferroviaria (

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services) and

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(NCA) (

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History

The station was terminus of the

Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway The Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway (BA&R) was a British-owned railway company that built and operated a broad gauge railway network in Argentina, where it was known as the "Ferrocarril Buenos Aires y Rosario". Originally thought as a line from ...

(BARR) company. The railway line was opened in 1885 and was the first to join Rosario and

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(about 300 km south-southeast). From Rosario Norte the line continued to the northwest, crossing several provinces of Argentina to reach Tucumán. In 1908, after the merging of the BARR and the

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companies, the station was set aside to handle long-distance and express services. Around 1935–1940, a few years after the "golden age" of the Argentine railway system, Rosario Norte served 326,000 passengers per year (more than 800 daily). In 1977 almost all of the local and mid-distance passenger services were cancelled. Rosario Norte was left in charge of the few remaining ones. Starting in 1991, passenger rail services were eliminated throughout the country, while cargo lines were

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. The Rosario Norte– Retiro (Buenos Aires) line was shut down in July 1992, and the services going from Rosario Norte to Tucumán suffered the same fate in March 1993. Rosario Norte was reactivated in October 1997, as the exploitation of a new passenger service between Tucumán and Buenos Aires was granted by the government of Tucumán to the firm

Tucumán Ferrocarriles Tucumán Ferrocarriles S.A. (also known for its acronym TUFESA) was a company in Argentina which operated a railway line between Buenos Aires and Tucumán in Argentina, currently part of Mitre Railway network after nationalisation of the ent ...

. At the same time, the municipality of Rosario took over most of the building and began to reform it for administrative use. In June 1999 the Municipal Secretariat of Culture and Education was installed there, sharing the facilities with Tucumán Ferrocarriles and with a cargo train company (Buenos Aires al Pacífico/América Latina Logística). After the turn of the millennium, restoration and maintenance of the station's infrastructure, overdue by about two decades continued, and new services were added. , Rosario Norte manages two passenger services from Buenos Aires, a weekly one run by

Trenes de Buenos Aires Trenes de Buenos Aires (TBA) (In English: Trains of Buenos Aires) was a private company that operated commuter rail services over the broad gauge Sarmiento and Mitre lines of Buenos Aires. The company, owned by Claudio and Mario Cirigliano, also ...

(TBA), and another one (four days a week) run by

Ferrocentral Ferrocentral was an Argentine private railway company, with a name formed by a combination of the Spanish words for "Central Rail". It operated long-distance passenger trains from its base at Retiro station in Buenos Aires to several locations i ...

. The latter company also has a weekly service to Tucumán and one to Córdoba. These services are considerably slower than going by bus, but also safer and much cheaper. Since October 2014,

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Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado 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 ...

operates the Rosario Norte station as part of the passenger services from Retiro to Tucumán. In June 2016, Rosario Norte was set as new terminus for the Buenos Aires – Rosario service. Until then, trains only reached Rosario Sur."El tren a Retiro llega ahora hasta la estación Rosario Norte, en pleno Pichincha"
''La Capital'', 16 Jun 2016

Historic operators

References

External links

Trenes Argentinos
operator (passenger)
Nuevo Central Argentino
operator (freight) {{Railway stations in Argentina Railway stations in Rosario, Santa Fe Railway stations opened in 1885