page_title: Federico Lacroze railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Federico Lacroze railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Chacarita station of Federico Lacroze's Tramway Rural in Buenos Aires. Federico Lacroze terminus is placed here nowadays.
context_page_description: Federico Lacroze railway station is a passenger railway station in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The station is located in the city's outlying barrio of Chacarita in a predominantly residential area. It is just a short distance north of the Cementerio de la Chacarita, the city's largest cemetery. The station is named after Federico Lacroze, a prominent 19th century Argentine railway and transport pioneer who obtained the concession for building the Buenos Aires Central Railway in 1884. When the Argentine railway network was nationalised in 1948 the station became the Buenos Aires terminus for the lines that became part of the General Urquiza Railway.
context_section_description: The first station to open was "Chacarita" terminus, a precarious building that served as terminal for the Buenos Aires Central Railway, originally a horse-drawn railway established by entrepreneur Federico Lacroze that built and operated a line to cities of Zárate in Buenos Aires and 4 de Febrero in Santa Fe.  The station would be later demolished.
  The current underground station had been designed by the Lacroze Brothers with the intention of being a connection with the Buenos Aires Central Railway. The tunnels and parts of the original station are used for Line B to this day.
  The current terminal was designed by Argentine architect Santiago Mayaud-Maisonneuve and his son Carlos in 1951, following the Rationalist style of architecture. It was inaugurated in 1957 and its construction financed by the state, as the railways were state-owned at the time. The building received protected status in 2009.
caption: Former Chacarita station, terminus of Tramway Rural, c. 1880s. The building would be replaced by the current terminal.
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