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 ...

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

, and terminus of

Ferrocarril Mitre Futbol Club Sonsonate is a Salvadoran professional football club based in Sonsonate, El Salvador. The club plays its home games at Estadio Anna Mercedes Campos, a stadium located in the City suburb of Sonsonate, Sonsonate, since 2009. The team ...

. The station was built and firstly operated by 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 ...

(BA&R) and then added to Ferrocarril Mitre network in 1948. It is currently operated by two companies: State-owned

Trenes Argentinos 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 ...

(for passenger services) and private

Nuevo Central Argentino Nuevo Central Argentino S. A. (abbreviated NCA) is an Argentine company that utilises the operation and infrastructure of the national railway system of the former Mitre Railway division of Ferrocarriles Argentinos, by a concession granted on 23 ...

(NCA) that runs

freight train Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers. A freight train, cargo train, or goods train is a group of freight cars (US) or goods wagons (International Union of Railways) haul ...

s on the line.

History

The station was inaugurated in February 1891, after the

extended its lines to the city of Tucumán. The company had originally conceived a network to the city of

Campana, Buenos Aires Campana is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the seat of the Campana Partido. It is located about from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, on the right-hand margin of the Paraná River. Its population is 94,333 inhabitan ...

although it the Government of Argentina granted BAR permission to extend lines to the North of Argentina, reaching Zárate and Rosario in 1885. In 1896 a weekly express train (with no intermediate stop) began to run from Buenos Aires to Tucumán, with a journey time of 26 hours. In Tucumán station passengers transferred Ferrocarril Central Norte trains that allowed them to reach Northern provinces of

Salta Salta () is the capital and largest city in the Argentine province of the same name. With a population of 618,375 according to the 2010 census, it is also the 7th most-populous city in Argentina. The city serves as the cultural and economic ce ...

and

Jujuy San Salvador de Jujuy (), commonly known as Jujuy and locally often referred to as San Salvador, is the capital and largest city of Jujuy Province in northwest Argentina. Also, it is the seat of the Doctor Manuel Belgrano Department. It lies near ...

."Tren Estrella del Norte" on Expreso Buenos Aires-Tucumán website
/ref> Tucumán station became part of the

Central Argentine Railway The Central Argentine Railway, referred to as CA below, (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Central Argentino) was one of the ''Big Four'' broad gauge, British companies that built and operated railway networks in Argentina. The company had been establis ...

network when both companies, BA&R and CA merged in 1908. The CAR also ran several express services to the North of Argentina, being the ''Estrella del Norte'' (inaugurated in 1914) the most famous train that joined Buenos Aires and Tucumán. In 1929 it was powered by PS11 W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co locomotives.''Historia del Ferrocarril al Norte del Gran Buenos Aires: Ferrocarriles Mitre y Belgrano'', by Ariel Bernasconi - Dunken Editorial (2012) - In 1948, British and French-owned railways in Argentina were nationalised by the Juan Perón administration. The Central Argentine Railway line was added to

network, being subsequently operated by State-owned company

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 ...

that ran services to Tucumán. After the privatisation of all railway services in Argentina under Carlos Menem's administration, the Tucumán station was operated by two companies, private

(which was granted the Mitre Railway freight services in concession) and Tucumán Ferrocarriles that ran 4 trains per week to Tucumán. After TUFESA was dissolved, trains to Buenos Aires would be run by NOA Ferrocarriles S.A., with a service named ''El Jardín de la República'' ("Garden of the Republic"), taking about 24 hours to connect both cities. Another private company,

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 in ...

, would take over services to Tucumán after the government of Tucumán revoked the concession granted to NOA in 2005. In November 2014, the Government of Argentina (through the State-owned company Trenes Argentinos S.A.) took over the services to Rosario, Santa Fe,

and Córdoba, leaving Ferrocentral inactive."El Gobierno estatizó los servicios de ferrocarriles de larga distancia"
''Infobae'', 7 Nov 2014

Operators

;Notes

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tucuman Mitre railway station Railway stations in Argentina Railway stations opened in 1891