Once railway station

The Once de Septiembre train station, but usually only briefly once, is a local and remote station in the district of Balvanera the Argentine capital Buenos Aires 's Plaza misery. Today, opened in 1902 railhead mainly serves trains to the west and is named after the September 11, 1852, on which the city of Buenos Aires seceded from the Argentine Confederation. In addition to the Once Railway Station are the two metro stations of line A ( Plaza misery ) and H ( Once).

History

The first building of the station once was since 1948 Ferrocarril Domingo Faustino Sarmiento opened in 1857 as part of the Argentine railway Ferrocarril Oeste. At this time the station functioned purely as an intermediate station on the Plaza Once. The trains started in the center of the capital on Plaza del Parque station ( today Plaza Lavalle next to the Teatro Colón ) and first went to La Floresta. In early years, the track more like a steam tram was similar, but the tracks were laid directly on the streets. However, they proved to be profitable.

With the increasing traffic and also with rising passenger numbers, the proposal arose as to discontinue the inner-city route between Once and Plaza del Parque and to let it end the trains already at the Plaza Once. The city of Buenos Aires has already been adopted in 1878 a decree with the request to close the distance. This invitation came after the company that operates only on January 1, 1883; at the site of the former Endbahnhofes the Teatro Colon was built.

To meet the increasing future ridership justice, a large head station designed by the architect John Doyer (1862-1939) was built in the Neo-Renaissance style at the Plaza once between 1895 and 1902. 1913 was the station as the first in Buenos Aires a subway connection, the current line A of Subterráneo between Plaza de Mayo and Plaza Once opened.

1947 was the place where the closest train station, renamed Plaza Miserere, first, it remained at the former station name whose name is popularly used today for the whole station area. 1951, under the government of Perón, the train station at 1 de Marzo ( March 1 ) was renamed to commemorate the nationalization of the Argentine railways on 1 March 1948. After the fall of Perón government in 1955, the station was given back its original name, the place is called but until today Plaza misery.

In 1972 the concourse was rebuilt and divided by a transverse bar into two parts. In the following decades was relatively little change at the station architecture, but not well serviced. Since 2006, the station is piece by piece renovated and partially restored back to its original state.

Today the station serves mainly suburban traffic on the Línea Sarmiento between Once and Moreno operated since the privatization of the Argentine railways on behalf of the state by the Trenes de Buenos Aires ( TBA). In addition, the company Ferrobaires, which is part of the province of Buenos Aires, weekly regional and long-distance transport in the entire province of Buenos Aires, among others to Lincoln, Bragado and Pehuajó operates.

The station is used daily by about 400,000 passengers.

On February 22, 2012, a severe train accident occurred during the morning rush. With a speed of about 25 km / h over rode a commuter train fully occupied the buffer. 51 people died and at least 703 were injured.

On October 19, 2013 derailed in the same station building again a passenger train, in which 99 people were injured, some seriously.