page_title: Buenavista railway station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Buenavista railway station / History
caption_attribution_description: Estación de Ferrocarriles de Buenavista
context_page_description: Buenavista Station is a passenger rail station in Mexico City. The station provided intercity train services from Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México. Since June 2008, the station serves as the terminus of the Tren Suburbano commuter rail service. Atop the ground-level station and tracks is one of the city's largest shopping malls, Forum Buenavista.
  The adjacent Buenavista metro station is also the terminus of Mexico City Metro Line B, that runs from this station to Ciudad Azteca in the State of Mexico. Additionally, three Metrobús lines serve the area.
context_section_description: The station served to inaugurate passenger rail service in Mexico on January 20, 1873, when Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México ran its first passenger rail trip from Mexico City to the Port of Veracruz.  Among the passengers of the inaugural trip was Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, President of Mexico at the time.  The rail trip took three days due to a number of official presidential events along the route.
  The original structure was demolished by Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México in 1958 to construct a new station nearby.  The plot on which the original station stood was redeveloped. Buenavista Station was re-inaugurated in 1961 by President Adolfo López Mateos.
  The headquarters of Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México were built in front of the station and to the north of the station, an automated postal facility was constructed. To the south of the station, the borough hall of the Borough of Cuauhtémoc was inaugurated in September 1976. The traffic circle in front of the station holds a statue of Christopher Columbus, which was inaugurated on October 12, 1892, in celebration of the 400-year anniversary of the explorer's discovery of America.
  The principal intercity destinations served by Buenavista station were:
  Cuernavaca, Morelos
  Guadalajara, Jalisco
  Querétaro, Querétaro
  Veracruz, Veracruz
  Monterrey, Nuevo León
  Mérida, Yucatán
  Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua
  Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
  Durango, Durango
  Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
  San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí
  Oaxaca, Oaxaca
  Morelia, Michoacán
  Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México used the train terminal for passenger train traffic to connect the United States, Guatemala, and Belize with other Mexican cities.
caption: Buenavista Station (2006) prior to its remodeling in 2008
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