Argentina

Country Details

Argentine Republic: Federal Presidential Constitutional Republic, República Argentina [Spanish].

Language: Spanish (Official) plus 7 Co-official languages including Welsh.

Currency: Argentine Peso (ARS); $.

See Wikipedia

National Railway System

UIC code

alpha AR

National Railway Operator

Ferrocarriles Argentinos Sociedad del Estado (FASE), which has superseded the now dissolved Trenes Argentinos (Sites in Spanish).

FASE has four Divisions;

• Trenes Argentinos Operaciones (Site in Spanish) for passenger services covering local, long distance and international operations .
• Trenes Argentinos Infraestructura - ADIFSE - see below
• Trenes Argentinos Cargas (site in Spanish) for freight traffic.
• Capital Humano - Hunan Resources.

Other passenger service operators

• Ferrovias is a private company that operate services in Buenos Aires for 55km on the Belgrano Norte line from Retiro Belgrano to Villa Rosa.

Passenger Services

Argentina - Passenger Railway Services

Timetables

• Online: unofficial timetable information is available at Fahrplancenter. Note that this may be out of date.
• Printed: summary timetables are available in some editions of the European Rail Timetable.
• Summary information is also available at the Man in Seat 61.

Buenos Aires local services. To identify routes see passenger services in previous section.

• Linea Mitre
• Linea San Martin
• Linea Belgrano Norte A journey planner can be found here
• Linea Sarmiento
• Linea Belgrano Sur
• Linea Roca

Rosario area local services

• Rosario Norte - Cañada de Gómez

Chaco province regional services

• Resistencia - Cacuí – Los Amores and Sáenz Peña - Chorotis

Neuquén province regional services

• Neuquén - Plottier

Salta province regional services

• Güemes - Salta - Campo Quijano

Córdoba province regional services

• Córdoba/Alta Córdoba - Cosquín - Capilla del Monte

Entre Ríos province regional services

• Paraná - Enrique Berduc - Jorge Méndez

Argentina to Paraguay International Services

• Encarnación - Posadas

Maps

Web-based Maps

A downloadable PDF map of rail lines is at Argentina train map dated April 2021.

Map of passenger railway lines in Greater Buenos Aires is here

Some basic diagrammatic route maps for regional and international services are at Mapa de servicos regionales e internacional.

Some basic diagrammatic route maps for long distance services are at Mapa de servicosde de larga distancia.

Some web based maps for freight and logistic operations are located at Trenes Argentinos Cargas Mapas.

Ticketing

Some ticketing information for regional and long distance services is at Venta de pasajes (in Spanish).

Infrastructure

Infrastructure Authority

Administración de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias Sociedad del Estado (ADIFSE) (site in Spanish) trading as Trenes Argentinos Infraestructura.

Gauges

• 1,676 mm (5 foot 6 in).
• 1,435 mm (4 foot 8 1⁄2 inches) Standard.
• 1,000 mm (3 foot 3 3⁄8 inches) Metre.
• 500 mm (19 3⁄4 inches) for Tren del Fin del Mundo tourist line.

Electrification

• 550 and 600 V DC Third Rail
• 600, 750 and 1500 V DC Overhead

Rule of the road

Right, as a result of the configuration of the rolling stock second hand from the USA.

Tourist Lines

• Tren del Fin del Mundo (Train at the End of the World) - Runs 7km from Estación del Fin del Mundo (about 7km from Ushuaia) to Estación El Parque (in the Tierra del Fuego national park).
• Trensolar de la Quebrada is a tourist railway running 42km from Volcán to Purmamarca, Maimará and Tilcara.
• Tren Ecológico de la Selva or Tren de las Cataratas is a 600 mm narrow gauge train that runs 3.7km through the forest inside Iguazú National Park between Central and Garganta
• The Tren a las Nubes (English: Train to the Clouds) departs San Antonio station in Salta province for the 217-kilometre trip to the Polvorilla viaduct.
• The Tren de la Costa is in Greater Buenos Aires and runs 15.5km from Av. Maipú (connection from Buenos Aires Mitre line) to Delta
• La Trochita The Old Patagonian Express operates as two separate sections: Esquel - Nahuelpan and El Maiten - km228 - Ñorquincó

Metros

Subterráneos de Buenos Aires S. E. (SBASE) trading as Subte de Buenos Aires (SUBTE) (site in Spanish) with six lines along with premetro line [P] and the Urquiza suburban line.

Trams/LRT

• The 17 km Metrotranvía Mendoza (STM) light rail line is built along the former railway corridor of the Ferrocarril General San Martín (FCGSM) and opened in 2012. See official Sociedad de Transporte de Mendoza (STM) site (in Spanish) for timetables and more information.
• Premetro is a 7.4-kilometre light rail line that runs along the outskirts of Buenos Aires, connecting with the Buenos Aires Metro line E at Plaza de los Virreyes station and then to General Savio, with a short branch to Centro Cívico. See also Subte de Buenos Aires under Metro's.

Recent and Future Changes

Recent Changes

Tren Solar de la Quebrada was officially launched on 18 June 2024 and inaugurated over the 35 km, between Volcán, Tumbaya, Purmamarca and Maimará, on 19 June 2024. The final 7km section, Maimará to Tilcara, opened 13 August 2024.

From 16 November 2023, Tren de las Sierras regional services, in the northern city of Córdoba, have been extended 34 km to serve Capilla del Monte, following the completion of renovation work on the metre-gauge line from Valle Hermoso.

According to newspaper reports the last train from Bragado to Pehuajó ran on Sunday 27 October 2024. Services remain 3x weekly from Buenos Aires Once to Bragado.

Lines with Obscure or Sparse Passenger Services

See Argentina - Lines with Obscure or Sparse passenger services.