Tucumán is a

train station A train station, railway station, railroad station or depot is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight or both. It generally consists of at least one platform, one track and a station building providing s ...

in the city of

San Miguel de Tucumán San Miguel de Tucumán (; usually called simply Tucumán) is the capital and largest city of Tucumán Province, located in northern Argentina from Buenos Aires. It is the fifth-largest city of Argentina after Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Argentina, ...

Tucumán Province Tucumán () is the most densely populated, and the second-smallest by land area, of the provinces of Argentina. Located in the northwest of the country, the province has the capital of San Miguel de Tucumán, often shortened to Tucumán. Neigh ...

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. The station was originally built and operated by the

Córdoba Central Railway The Córdoba Central Railway (CCR) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Central Córdoba) was a British-owned railway company, founded in 1887, that operated a railway network in Argentina which extended from Buenos Aires, north west via Rosario and C ...

and then added to Belgrano Railway network. Nowadays the station is only used for

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services, being operated by state-owned company Trenes Argentinos Cargas .

History

The

was founded in 1887 to take over a concession, originally granted to William Temple in 1885, for the construction of a 206 km line, from the Córdoba city suburb of Alta Córdoba to

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

. In October 1887 the Government granted the operation of Ferrocarril Central Norte's 884 km line (that included the Alta Córdoba-Tucumán, Frías-Santiago del Estero and Recreo-Chubicha branches) to Hume Hnos. & Cía (owned by The Hume Brothers) for $ 16,000,000. Tucuman cc 1890s

The Tucumán CC station was the first railway station in the province, placed on the corner of San Martín and Marco Avellaneda streets, being designed by French architect Clodomiro Hidelet and opened to public in October 1876."La primera estación"
''La Gaceta'', 18 May 2012 After the entire railway network was nationalised during Juan Perón's administration, the station started to be operated by recently formed

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 ...

. The station remained active as an intermediate stop for trains run by Belgrano Railway to

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in Jujuy Province. The other station in the city for passenger trains was Tucumán N. (for

Central Northern Railway The Central Northern Railway (Spanish: ''Ferrocarril Central Norte'', FCCN) was the first ( metre gauge) railway built by the Argentine State Railway. Its aim was to extend the existing British-owned Central Argentine broad gauge) railway fro ...

, also transferred to Belgrano Railway in 1948). In early 1990s, when the Carlos Menem's administration

privatised Privatization (also privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector. It is also sometimes used as a synonym for deregulation when ...

all the railway services, the Belgrano Railway freight service remained under the control of the state due to lack of interest from private inversors. Nevertheless, the railway would be granted to

Belgrano Cargas Belgrano Cargas S.A. was an Argentine State-owned company which operated the gauge freight rail network built by Central Northern and Province of Santa Fe Railways, which became part of Belgrano Railway network after railway nationalizat ...

S.A., a consortium established by railway union "Unión Ferroviaria" in 1999. On the other hand, all the long-distance passenger services were closed in March 1993 so the station has remained active for freight trains exclusively since then. In 2008, the Government of Argentina ceased the concession granted to Belgrano Cargas S.A. to operate the 7,347 km. of Belgrano Railway's freight network. A new company, " Belgrano Cargas y Logística", was established in May 2013 by National decree, to take over Belgrano's freight services, formerly operated by Belgrano Cargas. In June that same year the company also took over some services from Urquiza (2,704 km) and San Martín (5,254 km) railways.Boletín Oficial de Argentina N° 32.644
/ref> The station building was remodeled in 2009, after a project to bring back a service between San Miguel de Tucumán and Tafí Viejo, although it was never reestablished.

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Trenes Argentinos Cargas
operator {{DEFAULTSORT:Tucuman Belgrano railway station Railway stations in Argentina Railway stations opened in 1876