The Rosario Central Córdoba Station is a former train station

Train station

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 in Rosario

Rosario

Rosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 1,159,004 residents as of the ....

, province

Provinces of Argentina

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 of Santa Fe

Santa Fe Province

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, Argentina

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. It is located at the junction of 27 de Febrero Boulevard and Juan Manuel de Rosas St., south of the city center.

The station served as a terminus of the Córdoba & Rosario Railway company, which laid down its first rails in 1888. The line went north to the city of Rafaela

Rafaela

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 and then to Córdoba

Córdoba, Argentina

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. In 1912, the company merged with the Córdoba Central Railway

Córdoba Central Railway

The Córdoba Central Railway was a British-owned railway company, founded in 1887, that operated a 1960 km metre gauge...

.
The central block of the Rosario Central Córdoba Station was completely destroyed by a fire on 31 December 1921. The reconstruction of the building was started almost immediately. It ended in 1926 with the construction of a characteristic cupola

Cupola

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 (dome

Dome

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-shaped vault), which has been preserved until the present.

In 1949 the government of Juan Perón

Juan Perón

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 nationalised

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...

 the Argentine railways and reconfigured the lines. The Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano

Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano

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 company was left in charge of the Rosario Central Córdoba line; it shut down the passenger services handled by the Rosario Central Córdoba and other stations, concentrating all of it at Rosario Oeste Station.

Starting in 2005, the terrains surrounding the station were employed to create an urban park (Parque Hipólito Yrigoyen). As part of the renewal of the area, the station was restored.

, the station's building is the seat of the Asociación Rosarina Amigos del Riel (Rosario's Friends of the Rail Association), a railway advocacy and research organization.