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4 unusual facts about Puente Alsina railway station


Puente Alsina railway station

The station takes its name from the nearby bridge of Puente Alsina over the Riachuelo River.

As part of the privatization of the Argentine railways in 1990’s the private company Metropolitano was granted a concession to operate the service, part of the Linea Belgrano Sur, as far as General Belgrano, from 1 May 1994.

Puente Alsina railway station, (Estación Puente Alsina in Spanish) is an Argentine railway station in the Greater Buenos Aires neighbourhood of Valentín Alsina in the Lanús partido of Buenos Aires Province.

Built by the British-owned Buenos Aires Midland Railway (BAM), the station was opened in about 1910 as the terminus for their metre gauge line to Carhué, in the southwest of the province.



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