Urquiza Line
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The Urquiza Line is a 26 km suburban electric commuter rail line in Buenos Aires, Argentina, operated by the former Buenos Aires Underground operator Metrovías. It runs from the Federico Lacroze termi
Toshiba EMU leaving José Artigas station, May 2014
Early days Lacroze rural tramway
Trams were acquired from Pacific Electric in the 1950s
Toshiba coach interior
General Urquiza Railway
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The General Urquiza Railway, named after the Argentine general and politician Justo José de Urquiza, is a standard gauge railway of Argentina which runs approximately northwards from Buenos Aires to P
Urquiza Line
…75,400 passengers daily. The line operates 20 hours a day, 7 days a week at 8 to 30 minute intervals. This suburban line runs on track once operated by General Urquiza Railway before railway privatisation. In earlier times the line was planned to run into the centre of Buenos Aires, through a long tunnel. But when the tunnel…
Posadas-Encarnación International Train at Posadas
Corrientes station, terminus of Economic Railway.
Train at Zárate station, 1914.
Steam locomotive unloading from a Paraná River train ferry (c.1920).