Línea Mitre (Buenos Aires)

The Mitre line is a commuter rail service 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

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 run by the private company Trenes de Buenos Aires (TBA)

Trenes de Buenos Aires

Trenes de Buenos Aires is a privately-owned company which, on 27 May 1995, took over the concession, granted by the Argentine government as part of railway privatisation during the presidency of Carlos Menem, for the operation of commuter rail services in Buenos Aires, Argentina over the broad...

 since 27 May 1995. This service had previously been run by the state-owned Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre

Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre

Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre , named after the former Argentine president Bartolomé Mitre, was one of the six state-owned Argentine railway companies formed after President Juan Perón's nationalisation of the railway network in 1948...

 since nationalisation

Railway Nationalisation in Argentina

In 1948, during President Juan Perón’s first term of office, the seven British-owned and three French-owned railway companies then operating in Argentina, were purchased by the state...

 of the railways in 1948. TBA forms part of the consortium UGOFE

Unidad de Gestión Operativa Ferroviaria de Emergencia

Unidad de Gestión Operativa Ferroviaria de Emergencia is a temporary consortium of Argentine companies formed on 7 January 2005 by Ferrovías, Metrovías and Trenes de Buenos Aires to take over the running of commuter railway services in Buenos Aires after concessions granted to Metropolitano in...

 which operates other commuter rail services in Buenos Aires. The Mitre line operates on broad gauge

Broad gauge

Broad-gauge railways use a track gauge greater than the standard gauge of .- List :For list see: List of broad gauges, by gauge and country- History :...

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Train services

Urban

• Retiro – Tigre
• Retiro – Bartolomé Mitre // Maipú – Delta (TDC)
  Tren de la Costa
  Tren de la Costa is a suburban , 11-station light rail line in Greater Buenos Aires, between Maipú Avenue station in the northern suburb of Olivos and Delta station in Tigre, on the Río de la Plata...
  
  
• Retiro – Villa Ballester – José León Suárez

Suburban

• Victoria – Capilla del Señor
• Victoria – Matheu
• Villa Ballester – Zárate

Interurbans

• Retiro – Rosario – Santa Fe
• Retiro – Córdoba
• Córdoba – Villa María
• Retiro – Tucumán

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See also

• Rail transport in Argentina
  Rail transport in Argentina
  The Argentine railway network comprised of track at the end of the Second World War and was, in its time, one of the most extensive and prosperous in South America. However, with the increase in highway construction, there followed a sharp decline in railway profitability, leading to the break-up...