The first Argentinean railroad couched in Buenos Aires in 1857 and it covered a journey of 9.983 m, starting from the terminal station located then in the park of Artillery (square LavaIle), in address west.
The company that exploited it called herself western Railroad (FCO).
The convoy arrived until what today is the neighborhood Floresta. In the first year, the train crawled by the locomotive "La Porteña" one transported 186.000 passengers.
The progress of this railroad was constant: in 1858 it already covered 18 km; in 1859, 23 km and in 1860, 39 km.
In 1862, the incipient rail net was enlarged to 47 km with the inauguration of the line Retiro-Belgrano of the North Railroad (FCN). Three years later it already arrived to Tiger, while the FCO extended until Mercedes. Simultaneously other lines were enabled: that of the Railroad South, of English capitals, among Constitution and Chascomús, and the brunch to the port of Ensenada. The net that was born in the city reached to cover 249 km in 1865.
Only one year later the net was increased to more than twice as much, with the incorporation of two new lines, this detached time of Buenos Aires.
The first one united Rosario (province of Santa Faith) with Bell Ville (province of Córdoba) and the second, Gualeguay with Port Ruiz (in the province of Entre Ríos).
The open brunches inside the country in the first stage of the development of the Argentinean railroad are eloquent taking into account that originally there was not a port centralist project of Buenos Aires in the layout of the net. The political design was later, product of the philosophy that embodied the Generation of the 80.
Until the Campaign of the Desert, in 1879, the rail net had a longitude of 2.231 km, with roads between Córdoba and Recreo (Catamarca), Córdoba-Río Cuarto and Concordia-Federacion (Entre Ríos). The mentioned campaign put an end to one of the limitations that had the railroad to expand: the Indians.
Starting from then the growth accelerated, to the point that in the following ten years the net multiplied for five and it reached the 10.000 kms, to arrive to almost 17.000 km before it concluded the XIX century.
In full evolution of the net decided to build a Central Station in Buenos Aires, located in what today is the area of Av. Leandro N. Alem and street Bartolomé Mitre.
It was property of the FC Buenos Aires that it exploited the line to the port of Ensenada. Soon the other lines extended their roads toward there, so that the trains cut the city in all the addresses, complicating the traffic of vehicles. The station was destroyed by a fire in 1897, taking place the decentralization toward the places where today they are located the four rail terminals, Retiro, Constitution, Chacarita and Square Miserere.
With the qualification of the port of Buenos Aires, the amplification of the rail net that converged on him followed a quick rhythm. The sequence was the following one
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