Compañía General de Ferrocarriles en la Provincia de Buenos Aires

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Compañía General de Ferrocarriles en la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
  • List
      • Rosario
      • Port of La Plata
      • Vedia
      • Gral. Villegas
      • V. de la Plaza
    • Service
    Type
    Argentren (2015)[a]
    History
    Opened1908[b]
    Closed1948; 76 years ago (1948)
    Technical
    Track gauge1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in)
    Route map

    The Compañía General de Ferrocarriles en la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CGBA) (in French: "Compagnie générale de chemins de fer dans la Province de Buenos Aires") was a

    metre-gauge railway network in Argentina.[1][2]

    History

    In 1904 the company took over a concession to build lines between the ports of Buenos Aires and Rosario, and to La Plata, together with other branch lines in the west and south of Buenos Aires Province. These lines were built as detailed below:[3]

    CGBA Progress
    Section Length (km) Date Opened
    Rosario
    		 395 1908-01-25
    Villars -
    9 de Julio
    		 202 1909-03-01
    González Catán - Port of La Plata 88 1910-07-27
    Vedia
    		 122 1910-12-05
    Patricios - Buenos Aires 224 1911-12-07
    9 de Julio - General Villegas
    		 232 1912-12-01
    Buchanan train station, September 1910

    The company always faced tough competition from the various large British-owned railway companies operating in the Province who had already built lines in those areas where most profit was to be made. As a result of this competition, plans to build a line between Buenos Aires and Bahía Blanca and other branch lines were abandoned.

    When the Government of

    Arturo Illia decided to close all the lines that were uneconomic so many branches were closed, such as the CGBA's G3 (to Port of La Plata), G4 (to General Villegas), G5 (to Victorino de la Plaza) and G6 (to Vedia
    ).

    Freight train running, c. 1910s

    Although some branches would be re-opened later, those reopenings were temporal, being the most of them definitely closed in 1977 by the de facto government in power in Argentina by then.[3]

    Of those branches, only G remained active but only to

    Belgrano Sur Line was re-privatised and given in concession to private company "Argentren" of Emepa Group. UGOFE was therefore dissolved.[4][5][6]

    Gallery

    • Las Marianas
      Las Marianas
    • Mercedes platform
      Mercedes platform
    • Mercedes building
      Mercedes building
    • Angel Etcheverry
      Angel Etcheverry
    • La Verde
      La Verde
    • Moll
      Moll

    See also

    • Belgrano Sur Line

    Notes

    1. Buenos Aires — González Catán
      branch is active as of Jan 2015.
    2. Rosario
      section was the first to be inaugurated.

    References

    1. ^ Historia Integral Argentina. Vol. 5. Centro Editor de América Latina. 1971. p. 183.
    2. ^ "Argentine working timetables - narrow & standard gauge". Archived from the original on 3 July 2004.
    3. ^ a b "Historia de la Compañía General de Buenos Aires". Plataforma 14 (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2014-03-26. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
    4. ^ "Trenes: le dan a Roggio el Mitre y el San Martín y a Emepa, el Roca y el Belgrano Sur". La Nación (in Spanish). 12 February 2014.
    5. ^ "Las privadas volverán a operar la mayoría de las líneas ferroviarias". Clarín (in Spanish). 12 February 2014.
    6. ^ "El Gobierno estableció un nuevo régimen de operaciones de las líneas ferroviarias". Telam (in Spanish). 12 February 2014.
    • Regalsky, Andrés M. (October 1989). "Foreign Capital, Local Interests and Railway Development in Argentina: French Investments in Railways, 1900-1914". Journal of Latin American Studies. 21 (3): 425–452.
      S2CID 145791632
      .

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