Buenos Aires Once de Septiembre Railway Station
The Once de Septiembre station , but usually only once for a short time , is a suburban and long-distance station in the Balvanera district of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires on Plaza Miserere . Today's terminus, opened in 1902, is primarily used for westbound train traffic and is named after September 11, 1852, when the city of Buenos Aires split from the Argentine confederation . Next to the Once train station are the two underground stations for lines A ( Plaza Miserere ) and H ( Once ).
history
The first construction of the Once station was opened in 1857 as part of the Argentine railway line Ferrocarril Oeste , since 1948 Ferrocarril Domingo Faustino Sarmiento . At that time, the station functioned purely as a stopover at Plaza Once . The trains began in the center of the capital at the Plaza del Parque station (at today's Plaza Lavalle next to the Teatro Colón ) and initially went to La Floresta . In the first few years the line was more like a steam tram, as the tracks were laid directly on the streets. Still, it turned out to be profitable.
With the increasing traffic and the increasing number of passengers, the suggestion was made to abandon the inner-city route between Once and Plaza del Parque and to let the trains end at Plaza Once. The city of Buenos Aires passed a decree in 1878 calling for the line to be closed. The operating company only complied with this request on January 1, 1883; The Teatro Colón was built on the site of the former terminus .
In order to cope with rising passenger numbers in the future, a large terminal station was built at Plaza Once between 1895 and 1902 according to the plans of the architect John Doyer (1862–1939) in the neo-renaissance style. In 1913, the station was the first in Buenos Aires to have an underground connection, today's line A of the Subterráneo between Plaza de Mayo and Plaza Once was opened.
In 1947 the square where the station is located was renamed Plaza Miserere , but initially the name of the station remained, the name of which is popularly used to this day for the entire station area. In 1951, under the Perón government, the station was renamed 1 de Marzo (March 1st) to commemorate the nationalization of the Argentine railways on March 1st, 1948. After the fall of the Perón government in 1955, the station was given its original name again, but the square is still called Plaza Misere today .
In 1972 the station hall was rebuilt and divided into two parts by a crossbar. In the decades that followed, relatively little was changed in the station architecture, but it was not maintained either. Since 2006, the station has been refurbished piece by piece and partially restored to its original state.
Today the station is mainly used for suburban traffic on the Línea Sarmiento between Once and Moreno , which has been operated by the Trenes de Buenos Aires (TBA) on behalf of the state since the Argentine railways were privatized . In addition, the Ferrobaires company , which belongs to the Province of Buenos Aires , operates weekly regional and long-distance services to the entire Province of Buenos Aires, including Lincoln , Bragado and Pehuajó .
The station is used by around 400,000 passengers every day.
On February 22, 2012, a serious train accident occurred in the morning rush hour. A fully occupied local train ran over the buffer stop at a speed of around 25 km / h. 51 people died and at least 703 were injured.
On October 19, 2013, another passenger train derailed in the same station building, injuring 99 people, some seriously.
Individual evidence
- ^ Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz: Historia de los ferrocarriles argentinos , Lancelot publishing house; Pages 32-35
- ↑ a b c Nora Sánchez: Once: el estado de la terminal es crítico y demora la remodelación , [Once: the condition of the station is critical and hinders renovation], Clarín , October 6, 2005
- ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : The train accident in Buenos Aires repeated on October 20, 2013
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Coordinates: 34 ° 36 ′ 30 ″ S , 58 ° 24 ′ 26 ″ W.