Buenavista Station is a passenger rail station in Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

. The station provided intercity passenger rail service until those services were discontinued by Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México

Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México

Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México, was Mexico's state owned railroad company from 1938 to 1998, and prior to 1938 a major railroad controlled by the government that linked Mexico City to the major cities of Nuevo Laredo and Ciudad Juárez on the U.S. border...

 in 1997. In June 2008, the station was reopened to serve as the terminus of the newly inaugurated commuter rail service, the Ferrocarril Suburbano de la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México.

The adjacent Metro Buenavista

Metro Buenavista

Metro Buenavista is a station on the Mexico City Metro, in the Colonia Buenavista neighborhood of the Cuauhtémoc borough. It is the southwestern terminal station of Line B . It also offers connections to the Insurgentes Metrobús bus rapid transit line.The station logo represents the front of an...

 station is also the terminus of Mexico City Metro

Mexico City Metro

The Mexico City Metro , officially called Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, is a metro system that serves the metropolitan area of Mexico City...

 Line B, that runs from this station to Ciudad Azteca

Metro Ciudad Azteca

Ciudad Azteca is a surface terminal station on Line B of the Mexico City Metro system. It is located in the median of Avenida Carlos Hank González...

 in the State of Mexico.

History

The station served to inaugurate passenger rail service in Mexico on January 10, 1873, when Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México ran its first passenger rail trip from Mexico City to the Port of Veracruz

Veracruz, Veracruz

Veracruz, officially known as Heroica Veracruz, is a major port city and municipality on the Gulf of Mexico in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The city is located in the central part of the state. It is located along Federal Highway 140 from the state capital Xalapa, and is the state's most...

. Among the passengers of the inaugural trip was Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada

Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada

Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada y Corral was a jurist and Liberal president of Mexico.-Background:...

, President of Mexico at the time. The rail trip took three days due to a number of official presidential events along the route.

The original structure was demolished by Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México in 1958 to construct a new station nearby. The plot on which the original station stood was redeveloped. The new Buenavista Station was inaugurated in 1961 by President Adolfo Lopez Mateos

Adolfo López Mateos

Adolfo López Mateos was a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who served as President of Mexico from 1958 to 1964...

.

The headquarters of Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México were built in front of the station and to the north of the station an automated postal facility was constructed. To the south of the station, the burrough hall of the Borough of Cuauhtémoc

Cuauhtémoc, D.F.

Cuauhtémoc, named after the former Aztec leader, is one of the 16 boroughs of the Federal district of Mexico City. It consists of the oldest parts of the city, extending over what was the entire city in the 1920s. This area is the historic and culture center of the city, although it is not the...

 was inaugurated in September 1976. The traffic circle in front of the station holds a statue of Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus

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, which was inaugurated on October 12, 1892, in celebration of the 400-year anniversary of the explorer's discovery of America.

The principal intercity destinations served by Buenavista station until 1997 were:

• Cuernavaca, Morelos
• Guadalajara, Jalisco
  Guadalajara, Jalisco
  Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...
  
  
• Querétaro, Querétaro
• Veracruz, Veracruz
  Veracruz, Veracruz
  Veracruz, officially known as Heroica Veracruz, is a major port city and municipality on the Gulf of Mexico in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The city is located in the central part of the state. It is located along Federal Highway 140 from the state capital Xalapa, and is the state's most...
  
  
• Monterrey, Nuevo León
• Mérida, Yucatán
  Mérida, Yucatán
  Mérida is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Yucatán and the Yucatán Peninsula. It is located in the northwest part of the state, about from the Gulf of Mexico coast...
  
  
• Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua
• Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
• Durango, Durango
  Durango, Durango
  -Climate:The city of Durango has a semi-arid climate, classified as Bsk in the Koppen system. The climate is temperate in the western portion , with the average annual temperature being 15 °C and consisting of an average annual rainfall of 1,600 millimeters. In the eastern region, the average...
  
  
• Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
  Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
  The city of Aguascalientes is the capital of the state of Aguascalientes in western central Mexico. It stands on the banks of the Río Aguascalientes, 1880 meters above sea level, at...
  
  
• San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí
  San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí
  San Luis Potosí, commonly called SLP or simply San Luis, is the capital of, and most populous city in the Mexican state of the same name. The city lies at an elevation of 1,850 meters...
  
  
• Oaxaca, Oaxaca
  Oaxaca, Oaxaca
  The city and municipality of Oaxaca de Juárez, or simply Oaxaca, is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of the same name . It is located in the Centro District in the Central Valleys region of the state, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre at the base of the Cerro del Fortín...
  
  
• Morelia, Michoacán

Current use

The station was remodelled beginning in 2007 in preparation for the launch of commuter rail service to Cuautitlán in the State of Mexico.

In addition to being a terminus of Metro Line B, the railway station is also a stop on Metrobús

Metrobus

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, Mexico City's bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit is a term applied to a variety of public transportation systems using buses to provide faster, more efficient service than an ordinary bus line. Often this is achieved by making improvements to existing infrastructure, vehicles and scheduling...

line.