FerrovÃas
Ferrovías s.a.c. is an Argentine transport company that operates commuter trains in Greater Buenos Aires on behalf of the Argentine state. The franchised route ( Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano (Norte) ) is 54 km long, the day nearly 180 trains carried 45.83 million passengers in 2008.
After the Argentine national railway company Ferrocarriles Argentinos smash in the early 1990s and was privatized in 1994 received the newly established Ferrvías the contract to operate the line between Retiro and Villa Rosa. The first trains under Ferrovías - director went on 1 April 1995.
Together with the rail freight companies Nuevo Central Argentino Ferrovías operates under the name Ferrocentral various remote services between Buenos Aires, among other things, to Cordoba and San Miguel de Tucumán. Since 2005 Ferrovías forms, together with the other private transport companies and Metrovías Trenes de Buenos Aires and the Argentine government, the provisional railway company UGOFE. This took over the operation of the suburban railway lines of route networks Ferrocarril General San Martín, Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano ( Sur ) and Ferrocarril General Roca, after the previous railway company Metropolitano, the concession was withdrawn. Also operates a subsidiary of Ferrovías, Ceseris, since 2007 in the Puerto Madero district of Buenos Aires, the Tramway Tranvía del Este.