Buenavista station
Metro · B Line B
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The story behind the icon
The station icon is the front of a locomotive.
The neighbourhood in which it stands bears the same name, since centuries ago the view of the landscape was magnificent, of such clarity that the city could be taken in at a glance. Today it is known as the place where the esplanade of the Cuauhtémoc borough stands.
Also here are the buildings of the Telecommunications Commission and the Buenavista station of the Suburban Railway, which entered service on 1 June 2008; this system begins at Buenavista and ends in the Municipality of Cuautitlán in the State of Mexico.
To speak of Buenavista is to recall the history of the railways in Mexico, which goes back to 1837, the year construction began on the first branch lines, a process that came to a close in the last decade of the Porfiriato. In recent years the railways began to be replaced by the country's road system.
At the end of the 1990s, Ferrocarriles Nacionales ceased to be the property of the nation and passed into private hands; it practically ended its operations on 1 September 1999, after the administration granted concessions over more than 25,000 kilometres of track and rights of way, chiefly to United States companies, whose trains today carry only freight. Nowadays Mexico City sends only freight trains into the interior of the Republic, and so Buenavista station closed its doors to travelling passengers.
What's near Buenavista
- Estación Buenavista (Tren Suburbano)