The Córdoba & Rosario Railway (C&R) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Córdoba y Rosario) was a British-owned railway company, founded in 1889, that operated a railway network in
Santa Fe Province
The Province of Santa Fe ( es, Provincia de Santa Fe, ) is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco (divided by the 28th parallel south), Corrientes, Entre RÃ ...
,
Argentina
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. The company was sold to the
Córdoba Central Railway
The Córdoba Central Railway (CCR) (in Spanish: Ferrocarril Central Córdoba) was a British-owned railway company, founded in 1887, that operated a railway network in Argentina which extended from Buenos Aires, north west via Rosario and C ...
(CC) in 1912.
The C&R was founded in 1889 to acquire a concession, granted to William Temple in 1886 by the province of Santa Fe, for the construction of a line, 222 km long, from the river port of
Rosario to
San Francisco
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which would provide a link with the CC which had completed the building of a line from
Córdoba to San Francisco the previous year.
The section from San Francisco to
Rafaela
Rafaela () is a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, about 96 km from the provincial capital. It is the head town of the Castellanos Department. It has a population of 99,150 per the .
The city was established in 1881 by Guillerm ...
, later to be known as the "Rafaela Steam Tramway", was finished in 1890 and a year later the Rosario to Frontera line was completed. It was now possible to operate through trains from Rosario north to
Tucumán via San Francisco and Córdoba in conjunction with the Córdoba Central. Once the CC had completed the construction of a line from
Buenos Aires
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to
Rosario in 1912 through trains could reach Tucumán from the capital for the first time.
Close collaboration between the two companies led finally to the purchase of the Córdoba & Rosario by the CC in 1913.
Finally the Córdoba Central would be added to
Ferrocarril Belgrano network after all the Argentine railways were
nationalised in 1948.
Bibliography
* ''British Railways in Argentina 1857-1914: A Case Study of Foreign Investment'' by Colin M. Lewis, Athlone Press (for the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London) (1983)
* ''British Railways in Argentina 1860-1948'' by H.R. Stones - P.E. Waters & Associates, Bromley, Kent - England (1993)
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Defunct railway companies of Argentina
Metre gauge railways in Argentina
Rail transport in Santa Fe Province
Rail transport in Córdoba Province, Argentina