- Buenavista Station
Buenavista Station is a passenger rail station in
Mexico City . The station provided intercity passenger rail service until those services were discontinued byFerrocarriles Nacionales de México in 1997. In June of 2008, the station was reopened to serve as the terminus of the newly inaugurated commuter rail service, theFerrocarril Suburbano de la Zona Metropolitana de México .The station is also the terminus of
Mexico City Metro Line B, that runs from this station to Ciudad Azteca in theState of Mexico .History
The station served to inaugurate passenger rail service in Mexico on
January 10 ,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 wasSebastián 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. The new Buenavista Station was inaugurated in 1961 by President
Miguel Alemán Valdés .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 burrough hall of the Borough of Cuauhtémoc was inaugurated in September 1976. The traffic cirle in front of the station holds a statue of
Christopher Columbus , which was inaugurated onOctober 12 ,1892 , in celebration of the 400-year anniversary of the explorer's discovery of America.The principal intercity destinations served by Buenavista station until 1997 were:
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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 Current use
The station was remodeled beginning in 2007 in preparation for the launch of commuter rail service to Cuautitlán in the State of Mexico. In addition to being a terminus of Metro Line B, the railway station is also a stop on
Metrobús , Mexico City'sbus rapid transit line.See also
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Metro Buenavista
*Rail transport in Mexico
*List of Mexican railroads
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