Trenes de Buenos Aires
Trenes de Buenos Aires ( TBA) to German trains of Buenos Aires, was an Argentine transport companies that operate suburban trains in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires on behalf of the Argentine state. The network of TBA consisted of nine lines on a route network of 185 km ( Mitre ) and 193 km ( Sarmiento ). The nearly 1,000 daily trains running transported 191 647 000 passengers in 2007. The company belonged to argentina -scale Transport Group Come Trans SA, which in turn belongs to the Cirigliano family. Currently employs 4340 employees.
After the Argentine national railway company Ferrocarriles Argentinos smash in the early 1990s and was privatized, the contract was awarded to the newly founded TBA 1995, the rail networks Mitre and Sarmiento to operate. The first trains ran on 27 May 1995.
2004 withdrew the Argentine government to the transport company Metropolitano, which had previously operated the route Ferrocarril General San Martín, due to quality defects, the concession. Together with the two other private companies Metrovías and Ferrovías, operate the suburban railways in Greater Buenos Aires, formed Trenes de Buenos Aires, the provisional operating company Unidad de Gestión Operativa Ferroviaria de Emergencia ( UGOFE ) to temporarily take over the operation on the track. 2007 Metropolitano government withdrew the rights for the other two to be operated routes ( Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano Norte and Ferrocarril General Roca ), which are operated since 22 May 2007 as of the UGOFE.
On 29 August 2011, the company also took over the traffic on the route between Pilar and Apóstoles as well as on an international route between Pilar and Paso de los Torres ( Uruguay) ( "Tren de los Pueblos Libres ").
Because of the railway accident at Once Railway Station on 22 February 2012 in which 51 people died, withdrew the Argentine government under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner with the Decree 793/12 on 24 May 2012, the operating license and put the railway operating under state management. The operation has since been performed on both of the railway company formerly operated lines of the Unidad de Gestión Operativa Mitre Sarmiento ( UGOMS ). The long-distance transport (El Gran Capitán ) and the route to Uruguay since then is no longer operated.