Classic route
Tren a Junín
Buenos Aires → Junín · Argentina
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The San Martin line west across the pampas to Junin, where the Buenos Aires al Pacifico arrived in 1884 and built the railway workshops that employed four thousand people.
Stations
- 0 kmRetiro +1
- 16 kmSáenz Peña
- 40 kmJosé C. Paz
- 55 kmPilar
- 65 kmManzanares
- 72 kmDoctor Domingo Cabred
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- 86 kmCortínes
- 111 kmMercedes P. +1
- 132 kmFranklin
- 143 kmGeneral Rivas
- 156 kmCastilla
- 172 kmRawson
- 203 kmCucha Cucha
- 209 kmChacabuco
- 231 kmO’Higgins
- 254 kmJunín
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 240065 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Trenes Argentinos — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Tren a Junín?
The Tren a Junín runs 254 km from Buenos Aires to Junín.
How long does the Tren a Junín take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 5 h 30 min for the 254 km. That is an average of 46 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Tren a Junín?
Trenes Argentinos, with CRRC coaches, diesel.
How old is the Tren a Junín?
The line has been in service since 1884. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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