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Federico Lacroze (Buenos Aires Underground)

Federico Lacroze (Buenos Aires Underground)

Buenos Aires Underground station

This article is about the railway station. For the railway entrepreneur, see Federico Lacroze.

Federico Lacroze is an underground station on Line B of the Buenos Aires Underground named after the Argentine railway entrepreneur, located at the intersection of Corrientes and Federico Lacroze avenues in the Chacarita neighbourhood and near the La Chacarita Cemetery.[1][2][3] The station was opened on 17 October 1930 as the western terminus of the extension of the line from Federico Lacroze to Callao.[4]

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It was a terminal station of line B from its inauguration and the inauguration of the extension to the Incas station on 9 August 2003.

This station has connection to Federico Lacroze railway station, the central station of the General Urquiza Railway and terminus of the Urquiza Line suburban electric commuter line operated by the underground operator Metrovías.

History

Originally, the underground station was intended to be the central terminal for Federico Lacroze's Buenos Aires Central Railway, however years later when construction of Line B began, it became an underground station. When the Federico Lacroze railway station was built, the Urquiza Line and General Urquiza Railway were moved permanently above ground.[5]

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References

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    "Subte". Buenos Aires Ciudad - Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Archived from the original on 31 March 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
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    "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-28. Retrieved 2012-11-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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    "Subte". Buenos Aires Ciudad - Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Archived from the original on 31 March 2013. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
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    Schwandl, Robert. "Buenos Aires". urbanrail.
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    Primer Subterraneo de Buenos Aires Historia de su Construcción - Historia y Biografias
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