Tucumán is a

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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, Argentin ...

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. Neighb ...

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, and terminus of

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. The station was built and firstly operated by the

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

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(for passenger services) and

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(NCA) that runs

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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

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although it the

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granted BAR permission to extend lines to the North of Argentina, reaching Zárate and

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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

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and

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

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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

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by the

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administration. The Central Argentine Railway line was added to

network, being subsequently operated by State-owned company

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that ran services to Tucumán. After the

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of all railway services in Argentina under

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'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,

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, would take over services to Tucumán after the government of Tucumán revoked the concession granted to NOA in 2005. In November 2014, the

(through the State-owned company Trenes Argentinos S.A.) took over the services to

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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 opened in 1891