Corredores Ferroviarios was an Argentine private company that operated the

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and San Martín railway services in Buenos Aires Province for about one year until the Government of Argentina rescinded the agreement with the company in March 2015. Since then, the Mitre and San Martín line are operated by State-owned company

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 ...

(SOFSE). The company also ran long-distance services to the city of Rosario in

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, with a travel time of about 9 hours and 30 minutes.

History

On May 24, 2012, the contract with TBA to operate the

and

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lines was revoked by the Government of Argentina after the Once station rail disaster. As a result, UGOMS took over the Mitre Line until it was granted in concession. The San Martín Line was granted to UGOFE, a consortium formed by railway companies

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and TBA, although TBA would be excluded from it a few days later. On February 12, 2014, the Government of Argentina announced that some companies would take over the lines operated by UGOFE, that was officially dissolved.

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also owned

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, a railway company formed with

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to run passenger services to Rosario, Tucumán and Córdoba cities of Argentina. The company was dissolved in November 2014, when the National Government took over the services, since then operated by SOFSE. When UGOFE was dissolved, Corredores Ferroviarios (a company part of Grupo Roggio, which also owns

, the operator of

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and

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since 1994) took over the Mitre / San Martín lines. In April 2014, brand new diesel multiple unit trains by

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company CSR were acquired by the National Government to be run on the San Martín Line. The units had been bought in 2008 but they were unable to run so the stations had to modify their platforms for the new coaches. Once works were concluded, the Chinese trains made their debut in Argentina. A total of 17 trains with 7 wagons each were acquired to replace local trains by Materfer, a local manufacturer. The Materfer trains had been built in the 1960s and 1970s. In November 2014, the Retiro-Tigre section of

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renewed its fleet of electric trains, adding a total of 12 brand new units for that service. The CSR trains replaced old

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wagons that had been brought to Argentina in the 1960s for the Mitre and

lines. The purchase cost $ 250 million, all paid by the National Government. The renovation of the rolling stock finished in February 2015 with the Retiro-B. Mitre branch. On March 2, 2015, the Government of Argentina rescinded the contract with Corredores Ferroviarios through its state-owned company SOFSE. The contract with the company had been signed in February 2014, committing Corredores Ferroviarios to operate the

and San Martín lines.

Services operated

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References

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* {{Railway Companies in Argentina Defunct railway companies of Argentina Railway companies established in 2014 Railway companies disestablished in 2015 2015 disestablishments in Argentina Argentine companies established in 2014 Rail transport in Buenos Aires Province