Ferrocarril Interoceánico de México
The Ferrocarril Interoceánico de México Railway was an early railway company in Mexico with a route network between the port of Veracruz and Mexico City via Xalapa and various branches off. The lines of the Ferrocarril Interoceánico, which had been built in 1888 as a company based in London, consisted of different sections, some of which had been built considerably earlier by other companies starting from Veracruz and which were partly operated with the use of draft animals and different gauges exhibited. The latter were converted to narrow gauge (914 mm). The original goal of a separate connection to the port of Acapulco was not achieved, only two stumps were created (Mexico City to Puente de Ixtla via Cuautla with a connection to a likewise planned but never completed line of the Ferrocarril Central Mexicano to an unspecified port on the Pacific, as well as the own route to Acapulco, realized from Puebla via Izúcar de Matamoros only to Tlanicualpilcan). The route stumps were later connected. Since 1902 the company was owned by the Mexican state, later the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México. Between 1947 and 1948, the narrow- gauge lines were converted to standard gauge and some of them were re-routed. A large part was given up in the course of the privatization of the Mexican railways.
literature
- Silke Hensel: Railways in Mexico. The problem of economic modernization and its social and spatial structuring consequences in Porfiriat , 1876–1910, Hamburg 1993.
