page_title: Tren Suburbano
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Tren Suburbano / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: EMU built by CAF inside the Suburban Railway station Cuautitlan Español: EMU construido por CAF en el interior de la estación Cuautitlán del Ferrocarril Suburbano
context_page_description: The Suburban Railway of the Valley of Mexico Metropolitan Area is an electric suburban rail system in Mexico City. It is also known as Valley of Mexico Suburban Rail System and colloquially referred to as El Tren Suburbano or Ferrocarril Suburbano. It is designed to complement the extensive Mexico City metro system, Latin America's largest and busiest urban rail network.
  The railway has 1 operative line with a length of 27 km with 7 stations, located in Cuauhtémoc and Azcapotzalco in Mexico City, and Tlalnepantla, Tultitlán and Cuautitlán, in the State of Mexico. There are proposed expansions with a total length of 242 kilometres of rail system.
context_section_description: The initial line covers a route measuring 27 kilometres (17 mi) from Mexico City's Buenavista railway station north to Cuautitlán, in the State of Mexico. This initial section, which began commercial service on June 2, 2008 (after three weeks of fare-free trial operation), cost US$706 million to build, with the Mexican Federal Government contributing 55% of this investment. The inaugural demonstration trip of the service from Buenavista to Lechería station and back again was made by then-President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, and then-Governor of the State of Mexico (and future president) Enrique Peña Nieto with Calderón acting as the train's engineer.
  The line was built on an existing railroad right of way. However, inside Mexico City itself on the approach to Buenavista Station, a considerable amount of grade separation, including below-grade excavation and new bridges, was necessary due to high density and traffic congestion. The construction elicited complaints by some Mexico City residents who objected to having their neighborhoods split by the rail line, but overall the public has supported the project.
  In addition to the track, the construction of Tren Suburbano also benefited from like-new electrification infrastructure already in place along most of the route, part of National Railways of Mexico (NdeM)'s Mexico City-Querétaro 25 kV 60 Hz mainline electrification completed in the 1990s but de-energized a few years later after NdeM was privatized.
  On August 24, 2005, Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A. (CAF) obtained a 30-year concession to supply rolling stock, build and operate the Tren Suburbano. The trains used on this service are electric trains built by CAF and are similar to the series 2000 trains of the Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos of São Paulo, Brazil.
caption: Cuautitlán Station
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