Trenes de Buenos Aires
Trenes de Buenos Aires (TBA), in German Trains from Buenos Aires , was an Argentine transport company that operated suburban trains in the greater Buenos Aires area on behalf of the Argentine state . The TBA network comprised nine lines on a route network of 185 km ( Miter ) and 193 km ( Sarmiento ). In 2007, there were almost 1000 trains running every day, carrying 191.647 million passengers. The company belonged to the Argentina-wide transport group Cometrans SA, which in turn belongs to the Cirigliano family. Currently employs 4340 people.
After the Argentine state railway company Ferrocarriles Argentinos was broken up and privatized in the early 1990s, the newly founded TBA was commissioned to operate the Miter and Sarmiento rail networks in 1995. The first trains ran on May 27, 1995.
In 2004, the Argentine government withdrew the license from the Metropolitano transport company , which had previously operated the Ferrocarril General San Martín route, due to quality defects. Together with the other two private companies Metrovías and Ferrovías , which operate suburban railways in the greater Buenos Aires area, Trenes de Buenos Aires formed the provisional operating company Unidad de Gestión Operativa Ferroviaria de Emergencia (UGOFE) to temporarily take over operations on the route. In 2007 the Metropolitano government withdrew the rights for the other two routes to be operated ( Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano Norte and Ferrocarril General Roca ), which have also been operated by UGOFE since May 22, 2007.
On August 29, 2011, the company also took over the traffic on the route between Pilar and Apóstoles and on the international route between Pilar and Paso de los Torres (Uruguay) (" Tren de los Pueblos Libres ").
Due to the railway accident at Once station on February 22, 2012, in which 51 people were killed, the Argentine federal government under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner revoked the operating license with decree 793/12 on May 24, 2012 and placed the railway operation under state control. Since then, operations have been carried out by the Unidad de Gestión Operativa Miter Sarmiento (UGOMS) on both lines previously operated by the railway company . Long-distance traffic ( El Gran Capitán ) and the route to Uruguay have not been operated since then.
Former lines
| network | traffic | Train run | Operating mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miter | Suburban traffic | Retiro - José León Suárez | 830V = |
| Miter | Suburban traffic | Retiro - Miter | 830V = |
| Miter | Suburban traffic | Retiro - Tigre | 830V = |
| Miter | Regional traffic | Villa Ballester - Zárate | diesel |
| Miter | Regional traffic | Victoria - Capilla del Señor | diesel |
| Miter | Long-distance transport | Retiro - Rosario - Santa Fe | diesel |
| Sarmiento | Suburban traffic | Once - Moreno | 830V = |
| Sarmiento | Regional traffic | Merlo - Lobos | diesel |
| Sarmiento | Regional traffic | Moreno - Mercedes | diesel |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Dates of the Trenes de Buenos Aires (Spanish) ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Clarín: Finalmente, el Gobierno le sacó las concesiones del Sarmiento y del Miter a TBA .
