Tlalnepantla is a commuter railway station serving the Ferrocarril Suburbano, a

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that connects the

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with

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. The station is located in the municipality of

Tlalnepantla Tlalnepantla de Baz is one of 125 municipalities of the state of Mexico, north of Mexico City. The municipal seat and largest city in the municipality is the city of Tlalnepantla. ''Tlalnepantla'' comes from the Náhuatl words ''tlalli'' (land) ...

, State of Mexico, north of Mexico City.

General information

Tlalnepantla station is located between the San Javier and Ceylan neighborhoods in the

municipality,

. It is the third station of the system going northbound from

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and the first one to be located in the State of Mexico. The station is located relatively close to downtown Tlalnepantla. As with

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, each station of the Ferrocarril Suburbano has a pictogram. Tlalnepantla's pictogram depicts the façade of the pyramid of Santa Cecilia Acatitlán, an archeological zone in Tlalnepantla discovered between 1923 and 1924. The station opened on 2 June 2008 as part of the first stretch of system 1 of the Ferrocarril Suburbano, going from

to the Lechería station in the

Station layout

References

{{Commons cat, Tlalnepantla Station 2008 establishments in Mexico

Railway stations opened in 2008 Tlalnepantla de Baz Buildings and structures in the State of Mexico