Várzea Paulista is a

train station A train station, railroad station, or railway station 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 suc ...

CPTM The Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos (CPTM) () is one of the rapid transit companies serving the city of São Paulo, alongside the São Paulo Metro, Via Quatro and Via Mobilidade, all four forming the largest metropolitan rail transpo ...

Line 7-Ruby, located in the city of

Várzea Paulista Várzea Paulista is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 123,071 (2020 est.) in an area of 35.1 km2. The elevation is 745 m. It is part of the agglomeration of Jundiaí. Media In telecommunications, the cit ...

History

Várzea station was opened on 1 July 1891, in a rural area of

Jundiaí Jundiaí is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, in the Southeast Region, Brazil, Southeast Region of Brazil, located north of São Paulo. The population of the city is 443,221, with an area ...

, during the first period of the railway modernization. The development of that region remained stagnant until 1923, when the chemical company L. Queiroz & Cia obtained lands in the city and built a factory next to the railway and the station, leading new residents to the location, known as Várzea, district of Jundiaí. In 1954, the district was briefly renamed to Secundino Veiga, as the station. In the following decades, Várzea Paulista was emancipated and the station is transferred from federal to state administration. Currently, the station attends to the CPTM trains with the name of Várzea Paulista. In November 2011, in the 120th anniversary of the station, a set of buildings was certified as historical site by the CONDEPHAAT. CPTM hired a project of a new building for the station, similar to the current one, but there is no deadline for the start of the construction, budgeted at R$ 40,000,000 (

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Várzea Paulista (CPTM) Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos stations Railway stations in Brazil opened in 1891