Estación Buenos Aires Línea Belgrano Sur
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Estación Buenos Aires Línea Belgrano Sur
Buenos Aires South Belgrano Line Station
City Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina
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Location off Av. Vélez Sársfield,
Barrio Barracas
Date of Opening 7 December 1911
Management UGOFE
Unidad de Gestión Operativa Ferroviaria de Emergencia
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Served by: UGOFE


Buenos Aires Línea Belgrano Sur railway station (Estación Buenos Aires Línea Belgrano Sur in Spanish
Spanish language
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) is a passenger railway terminus
Terminal Station
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 in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina
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. The station is located a short distance north of the Riachuelo River in the barrio of Barracas
Barracas
Barracas is a barrio, or district, in the southeast part of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located between the railroad of Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano and the Riachuelo River, and the streets Regimiento de Patricios, Defensa, Caseros, Vélez Sársfield, Amancio Alcorta, Lafayette,...

, an outlying neighbourhood in the southern part of the city. It is commonly referred to as simply Estación Buenos Aires, meaning "Buenos Aires Station".

Despite its name, Estación Buenos Aires is not the principal railway station of the city and is only a secondary commuter rail terminus. The local transportation company UGOFE operates various daily diesel trains to and from the Buenos Aires suburbs along two branches of the Línea Belgrano Sur
Línea Belgrano Sur (Buenos Aires)
The Belgrano Sur line is a commuter rail service in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina run by the private company Transportes Metropolitanos Belgrano Sur S.A. , a subsidiary of Metropolitano, between 1 May 1994 and 22 May 2007...

. Destinations include several stations in La Matanza Partido
La Matanza Partido
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The station is accessible by some city bus services but it is the only railway terminus in Buenos Aires that has no access to the Buenos Aires Metro
Buenos Aires Metro
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