Argentine North Eastern Railway
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The Argentine North Eastern Railway (ANER) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Nordeste Argentino, also Ferrocarril del Nord-Este Argentino) was a
History
The company was founded in 1887 to take over and complete two lines from
In 1888 the company acquired a batch of 32
Construction of the line to Corrientes, completed as far as Curuzú Cuatiá in 1890, was extended to Mercedes in 1898 and finally reached Corrientes later in the same year. The Posadas line reached Paso de los Libres in 1894 and was extended to Santo Tomé in 1901. Once the section from Santo Tomé to Posadas was opened some years later in 1911 an international rail connection with Paraguay was established.[3]
In 1907 the ANER took over British-owned East Argentine Railway, which operated a line from Monte Caseros south to Concordia in Entre Ríos Province.
Two years later a branch line from San Diego to the port of Goya on the
By the time then President of Argentina
See also
References
- ^ "Locomotoras Neilson del F.C.N.E.A." Basso en la Red (in Spanish).
- ^ "La historia viaja en ferrocarril". Página/12 (in Spanish). 31 August 2007.
- ^ "Ferrobarcos: La Estación Posadas". Histamar (in Spanish).
- ^ "1915- Fusión ferroviaria". De la Concordia (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 1 March 2011.
Bibliography
- Lewis, Colin M. (1983). British Railways in Argentina 1857-1914: A Case Study of Foreign Investment. Athlone Press (for the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London).
- Stones, H.R. (1993). British Railways in Argentina 1860-1948. Bromley, Kent, England: P.E. Waters & Associates.
- Wright, Winthrop R. (1974). British-Owned Railways in Argentina – Their Effect on Economic Nationalism, 1854-1948. Latin American Monograph. Vol. 34. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, Univ. of Texas Press.