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Retiro Mitre
Terminal station
Station facade
General information
Location	Av. Ramos Mejía 1358, Buenos Aires Argentina
Coordinates	34°35′29″S 58°22′29″W / 34.59139°S 58.37472°W / -34.59139; -58.37472
Owned by	Government of Argentina
Operated by	Trenes Argentinos
Line(s)	Mitre
Platforms	8
Connections	Subte Retiro Belgrano Retiro San Martín Bus terminus
Other information
Fare zone	Retiro, Buenos Aires
History
Opened	August 1, 1915; 109 years ago (1915-08-01)
National Historic Monument of Argentina
Designated	2006
Location Retiro MitreLocation within Buenos Aires

Retiro-Mitre, or simply Retiro, is one of the six large mainline railway station termini in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Located in the neighborhood of Retiro, it serves as terminal station for the Mitre Line that runs local trains to the northern suburbs of the Buenos Aires metropolitan area. It also functions as terminal station for the national General Mitre Railway, being one of Argentina's largest railway stations..

Retiro Mitre is accessible by the C line and Line E of the Buenos Aires Metro system and by numerous local public bus services. The station will also be accessible by Line H of the metro once its extension is complete. The station is also near Retiro bus station (Terminal de Omnibus), the principal long-distance bus terminal in Buenos Aires.

In 2006, the station was declared National Historic Monument of Argentina.

History

The Edwardian-style station building was designed by the British architects Eustace L. Conder, Roger Conder and Sydney G. Follet together with the engineer Reginald Reynolds. Building began in June 1909 and the station was opened on 1 August 1915 while being operated by the Central Argentine Railway. The steel structure for the building was made in Liverpool, England, and re-assembled in Argentina. For many years it was considered to be the most important example of structural engineering in South America and architecturally one of the finest buildings in the world. The train shed was supplied by the Butterley Company and closely resembles that at St Pancras in London.

After the railway Nationalisation in Argentina, the station became part of the Bartolomé Mitre Railway, a division of state-owned Ferrocarriles Argentinos, which operated commuter rail and long-distance services to Tucumán (being the Estrella del Norte the most notable of them) When the entire rail network was privatised in the early 1990s, Retiro Mitre was taken over by Trenes de Buenos Aires (TBA) for commuter services and Tucumán Ferrocarriles for long-distance journeys to the province, also crossing Rosario and Santiago del Estero. Other private companies operating the station were Corredores Ferroviarios and Ferrocentral.

In 1997 the Retiro Mitre station was declared a National Monument.

In 2015 plans were announced to expand the station with new platforms to accommodate long-distance services operated by Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado. The new part of the station would have new road access from Libertador Avenue, replacing land currently used for storage of rolling stock. The existing buildings are also currently being renovated, including restoration of the train shed.

Services

State-owned Trenes Argentinos operates the commuter rail services calling at José León Suárez (General San Martín Partido), Tigre, and Bartolomé Mitre along its three branches. Long-distance services to Rosario and Tucumán cities are also operated by the same company.

In media

Several films have been filmed at the station, the most important of which are Evita and The Secret in Their Eyes. Also several novels take place in the station and its surroundings.

Historic operators

Operator	Period
Central Argentine Railway	1915–1948
Ferrocarriles Argentinos	1948–1991
FEMESA	1991–94
TBA	1995–2012
Ferrocentral	2005–2014
UGOMS	2012–14
Corredores Ferroviarios	2014–15
Trenes Argentinos	2015–present

Notes

1. Temporary operator prior to the privatization of commuter rail services.
2. Only for long distance services to northern provinces.
3. ^ Temporary operator after concessions to TBA were revoked.

Gallery

• Great hall, 1915
• Coffeehouse, 2013
• Platform roofs, 2015
• North view, 2015
• Train platforms, 2017
• Hall, 2018

See also

• Retiro (Line C Buenos Aires Underground)
• Retiro (Line E Buenos Aires Underground)

Notes

References

1. Estación Retiro on GCBA
2. "Un tren argentino para los argentinos"
3. Advertisement of TUFESA services
4. "De a uno por línea, para mejor control", Página 12, 12 Feb 2014
5. "Metrovías operará las líneas Mitre y San Martín", En el Subte, 12 Feb 2014
6. "Vuelve el tren a Tucumán", Riel FM, 12 Sep 2005 (Archive)
7. Decreto 437/97 (Spanish) Retrieved 2010-12-27
8. Nuevo acceso y andenes para larga distancia en Retiro Mitre - EnElSubte, 3 April 2015

• Railway stations in Buenos Aires
• Railway stations in Argentina opened in 1915