page_title: Belgrano Sur Line
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Belgrano Sur Line / History / Background
caption_attribution_description: Español: El LW4 con inscripciones del Ferrocarril Nacional Provincia de Buenos Aires en Tapiales procedente de Libertad.
context_page_description: The Belgrano Sur line is an Argentine 1,000 mm metre gauge commuter rail service in the Greater Buenos Aires area, currently operated by state-owned enterprise Trenes Argentinos. The Belgrano Sur runs over tracks and stations built by the Franco–Belgian-owned Compañía General de Buenos Aires and British Midland companies at the beginning of the 20th century.
  The termini is Dr. A. Sáenz in the Nueva Pompeya district of the autonomous city of Buenos Aires, with two branches to 20 de Junio and Marinos del Crucero Gral. Belgrano in La Matanza and Merlo partidos respectively. Carrying just under 11 million passengers per year, the line is the least used of the Buenos Aires commuter rail network.
context_section_description: The railway line was originally built and operated by two companies, British-owned Buenos Aires Midland Railway that made its inaugural trip in 1909 joining Puente Alsina and Carhué, and Franco-Belgian-owned Compañía General de Buenos Aires (established in 1908), that built and operated a large network reaching cities in the west of Buenos Aires Province and branches to cities such as La Plata and Rosario, although most of the line was closed and only a few services are active nowadays.
  When the entire Argentine railway network was nationalised in 1948 during Juan Perón's presidency, the BA Midland became part of the Belgrano Sur line division of the General Belgrano Railway. Furthermore, the now nationalised companies added to Ferrocarril Belgrano network had been renamed, being known as "G" (Cía. Gral. de Buenos Aires), M (Midland) and P (Province of Buenos Aires Railway).
caption: A Birmingham railcar in Tapiales, 1957.
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