Central Station (Buenos Aires)

Central Station Estación Central
Commuter rail
Facade of the station in 1875. Photo by Christiano Junior.
General information
Location	Av. Paseo de Julio and Piedad, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Owned by	BA & Ensenada
Line(s)	List BA & Ensenada Western BA & Pacific BA & Rosario BA & Northern Central Argentine
Construction
Platform levels	3
History
Opened	12 Aug 1872
Closed	1897; 127 years ago (1897)
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The Central Station (in Spanish: Estación Central) was a railway station in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, which operated from 1872 to 1897.

The station was a union station of Buenos Aires shared by most of the separate railway companies existing by then, and functioned as terminus of most of the railway lines thus allowing passengers to connect conveniently between them. It was built in 1872 and located by what was then the shores of the Rio de la Plata next to the current Casa Rosada. The station building was a wood structure built in Great Britain, that had a slate mansard roof and a little tower with a clock and a dome on the top. When the Puerto Madero was inaugurated in 1897, the railway tracks of the Central Station blocked the access from the city to the port, and after a fire in 1897 use of the station was abandoned.