Corredores Ferroviarios

Corredores Ferroviarios was an Argentine private company that operated the Mitre and San Martín railway services in Buenos Aires Province for about one year until the Government of Argentina rescinded the agreement with the company in March 2015. Since then, the Mitre and San Martín line are operated by State-owned company Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado (SOFSE).[1]

Corredores Ferroviarios
TypePrivate
IndustryRailway
Predecessor
Founded2014
DefunctMarch 2, 2015 (2015-03-02) (Ceased operations)
Headquarters
Buenos Aires
,
Argentina
Area served
Buenos Aires Province
ServicesPassenger trains
OwnerGrupo Roggio
Websitecferroviarios.com.ar

The company also ran long-distance services to the city of Rosario in Santa Fe Province, with a travel time of about 9 hours and 30 minutes.[2]

History

On May 24, 2012, the contract with TBA to operate the Mitre and Sarmiento lines was revoked by the Government of Argentina after the Once station rail disaster.[3] As a result, UGOMS took over the Mitre Line until it was granted in concession. The San Martín Line was granted to UGOFE, a consortium formed by railway companies Ferrovías, Metrovías and TBA, although TBA would be excluded from it a few days later.

On February 12, 2014, the Government of Argentina announced that some companies would take over the lines operated by UGOFE, that was officially dissolved.[4][5]

Emepa Group also owned Ferrocentral, a railway company formed with Nuevo Central Argentino to run passenger services to Rosario, Tucumán and Córdoba cities of Argentina. The company was dissolved in November 2014, when the National Government took over the services, since then operated by SOFSE.[6][7]

When UGOFE was dissolved, Corredores Ferroviarios (a company part of Grupo Roggio, which also owns Metrovías, the operator of Buenos Aires Subte and Urquiza Line since 1994) took over the Mitre / San Martín lines.[4][5][8][9][10][11][12]

In April 2014, brand new diesel trains by Chinese company CSR were acquired by the National Government to be run in San Martín Line. The units had been brought in 2008 but they were unable to run so the stations had to modify their platforms for the new coaches. Once works were concluded, the Chinese trains made their debut in Argentina.[13] A total of 17 trains with 7 wagons each were acquired to replace local trains by Materfer, a local manufacturer. The Materfer trains had been built in the 1960s and 1970s.[14]

In November 2014, the Retiro-Tigre section of Mitre Line renewed its fleet of electric trains, adding a total of 12 brand new units for that service. The CSR trains replaced old Toshiba wagons that had been brought to Argentina in the 1960s for the Mitre and Sarmiento lines. The purchase cost $ 250 million, all paid by the National Government.[15][16] The renovation of the rolling stock finished in February 2015 with the Retiro-B. Mitre branch.[17][18]

On March 2, 2015, the Government of Argentina rescinded the contract with Corredores Ferroviarios through its state-owned company SOFSE.[1] The contract with the company had been signed in February 2014, committing Corredores Ferroviarios to operate the Mitre and San Martín lines.[19][20][21]

Services operated
Line Connects Type
MitreRetiro - TigreElectric
Retiro - B. Mitre
Retiro - José L. Suárez
José L. Suárez - ZárateDiesel
Victoria - Capilla del Señor
Retiro - Rosario Norte
San MartínRetiro - Dr. CabredDiesel

Notes
  1. Only private companies are listed. State-owned companies that operated the Mitre and San Martín lines were Ferrocarriles Argentinos (1948-91) and FEMESA (1991-94).

References
  1. Alfie, Alejandro (March 5, 2015). "Ya está lista la ley que prevé más control estatal sobre los trenes". Clarín (in Spanish).
  2. "Buenos Aires-Rosario servicio interurbano" (PDF). Corredores Ferroviarios (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 5, 2015.
  3. "Decreto N° 793/12: Rescisión del contrato de concesión suscripto con la empresa Trenes de Buenos Aires S.A." Infojus (in Spanish).
  4. Lukin, Tomás (February 12, 2014). "De a uno por línea, para mejor control". Página 12 (in Spanish).
  5. "Metrovías operará las líneas Mitre y San Martín". En el Subte (in Spanish). February 12, 2014.
  6. "Estatizaron los trenes de pasajeros de larga distancia". Clarín (in Spanish). November 8, 2014.
  7. "El Gobierno estatizó los servicios de ferrocarriles de larga distancia". Infobae (in Spanish). November 7, 2014.
  8. Rossi, Antonio (November 15, 2013). "Roggio y EMEPA se repartirán el manejo de cuatro ferrocarriles". Clarín (in Spanish).
  9. "Trenes cero kilómetro después de cincuenta años/ Cambios Recientes". Página 12 (in Spanish). November 26, 2014.
  10. "Trenes: le dan a Roggio el Mitre y el San Martín y a Emepa, el Roca y el Belgrano Sur". La Nación (in Spanish). February 12, 2014.
  11. "Las privadas volverán a operar la mayoría de las líneas ferroviarias". Clarín (in Spanish). February 12, 2014.
  12. "El Gobierno estableció un nuevo régimen de operaciones de las líneas ferroviarias". Telam (in Spanish). February 12, 2014.
  13. Cabot, Diego (April 24, 2014). "Un ramal con trenes nuevos, no modernos". La Nación (in Spanish).
  14. "Cómo son los nuevos trenes del San Martín". Clarín (in Spanish). April 23, 2014.
  15. MacMullen, Agustina (November 16, 2014). "Llega el nuevo tren Mitre: en diez días ya circularán doce formaciones chinas". La Nación (in Spanish).
  16. "Los nuevos trenes del Mitre: asombro en los pasajeros y viajes más cómodos". Clarín (in Spanish). November 26, 2014.
  17. "Nuevos vagones y tarifas para el ramal Retiro-Mitre del ferrocarril Mitre". Infobae (in Spanish). February 9, 2015.
  18. "Tren Mitre: a partir de hoy, todos los coches son 0KM". InfoNews (in Spanish). February 9, 2015.
  19. "Estado rescindió contrato de trenes a privados y avisó que no pagará indemnizaciones". Ambito Financiero (in Spanish). March 2, 2015.
  20. "Buenos Aires commuter routes renationalised". Railway Gazette. March 3, 2015.
  21. "Resolution N° 171/2015". Official Bulletin of Argentina (in Spanish). Archived from the original on July 21, 2015.
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