Day 1; Glew is the end of the electrified territory on the former General Roca Railway. This is train 304 El Cuidad de Mar del Plata on it's 5 hour ru from Mar del Plata to Buenos Aires

The mainstay of the Roca electric zone are these Japanese built EMUs, here leaving Glew for Plaza Constitucion.

By now all remaining long distance trains were run by the UEPFP - a body funded by the Province of Buenos Aires. This is 315 the 15:30 from Plaza Constitucion to Mar del Plata.

Day 2; The following morning I met up with Marcelo at Caballito, the first stop on the former Sarmiento Railway outside Once. I'm not sure but I think that, by October 1994, most of the commuter trains were now being run by Femesa, the company set up by the Argentine government to privatise the Buenos Aires suburban network.

UEPFP stillran services on the old Sarmiento. This is the tri-weekely train no.156 from Toay and Darreguira approaching Once.

Out on the former BAGS/Roca again, at Gerli. This is the Guayacan, no. 320 from Bolivar to Plaza C.

Gerli was (and maybe still is) the site of the new freight company, Ferrosur Roca's Km.5 Yard. A stone train enters, probably on interchange from Ferro Expreso Pampeano (FEPSA) in the SW of the city.

And here is a FEPSA loco, no. 6600 Gisella, an EMD GR12 resting between chores.

A mixed freight from the south arrives at Km 5. Mainly box and tank cars.

And once the freight was safely in the yard, train 304 from Mar del Plata, seen the previous day at Glew, sped past. Made up of six air-conditioned Japanese built pullmans (reclining seat day coaches) with at seat buffet service. This was the best of the three daily trains too and from Argentina's premier beach resort.

A pair of EMUs pass the Km 5 yard.

Running rather late, this could only be no. 352 El Bahiense, the overnight train from Bahia Blanca. A loco failure is a possibility as it would not normally warrant two EMD G22s.

Gisella on a transfer freight from Km 5 to the FEPSA yard. Many of the older fixed signals were no longer operational, despatching by radio being favoured by the new generation of companies.

At last the sun came out, in time for no. 315 to Mar del Plata passing Km 5.

At Lanus a Ferrosur Roca stone train heads south. Aggregate was one of the new company's mainstays.

We finished the day out on the Sarmiento at Villa Luro. UEPFP no. 151 El Ranquelano to Villegas iluminated by the evening sun.

Day 3; Bartoleme Mitre is the terminus of one of the Mitre/Central Argentine commuter routes from Retiro. It was an intermediate station on a second route to the Tigre/Delat area, but was cut back to Mitre. The station looks very English.

In 1994 the redundant trackbed from Mitre to Delta was being rehabilitated for a light rapid transit line; Tren de la Costa. Here's the formation just east of Mitre. Today the Tren de la Costa is a feature of the BA transport scene.

The areas through which both the Tren de la Costa and the Mitre branch to Tigre run are some of the most desirable suburbs in Buenos Aires. Here a Tigre train near Borges

A Retiro bound train passing under the route of the Tren de la Costa

Another Tigre bound train made up of the ubiquitous Japanese built EMUs

From the Tigre line we caught a number of buses across town to Liniers on the Sarmiento, stopping off to get this picture of a Metro-Vick set on a Retiro to Suarez train.

Liniers has two splendid signal boxes. Here an Once bound commuter train passing Liniers Central.

And here UEPFP no. 152, the 06:14 from Lincoln.