The Santa Fe and Córdoba Great Southern Railway (SF&CGS) was a British-owned railway company that built and operated a broad gauge

Indian gauge

Indian gauge is a track gauge commonly used in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Argentina and Chile. It is also the gauge that is used on BART , in northern California.- Scotland :...

 railway network in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, where it was known as the Gran Ferrocarril del Sud de Santa Fe y Córdoba.

On 2 October 1886 the concession was granted to build a railway from Villa Constitución

Villa Constitución

Villa Constitución is a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and the head town of the Constitución Department. It is located on the south-western banks of the Paraná River between the courses of the Arroyo Pavón and the Arroyo del Medio, about 214 km south from the provincial capital,...

 in Santa Fe Province

Santa Fe Province

The Invincible Province of Santa Fe, in Spanish Provincia Invencible de Santa Fe , is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco , Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Santiago del Estero...

 to La Carlota

La Carlota, Córdoba, Argentina

La Carlota is a city in the south of the province of Córdoba, Argentina, about 110 km south of Villa María and 240 km from Córdoba City. It has 11,490 inhabitants as per the ....

 in Córdoba Province

Córdoba Province (Argentina)

Córdoba is a province of Argentina, located in the center of the country. Neighboring provinces are : Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe, Buenos Aires, La Pampa, San Luis, La Rioja and Catamarca...

. In 1889 the concession was transferred to the SF&CGS who opened the first section of the line from Villa Constitución to San Urbano (Melincué

Melincué

Melincué is a town in the south of the , 287 km from the provincial capital. It has about 2,200 inhabitants as per the and it is the head town of the General López Department...

) on 30 April 1890. The line was extended to Venado Tuerto

Venado Tuerto

Venado Tuerto is a city in the south-west of the , 322 km from the provincial capital. It has about 70,000 inhabitants .Venado Tuerto was founded on April 26, 1884 by Eduardo Casey, born in Lobos, Buenos Aires, in 1847. He was the son of two Irish immigrants who had amassed considerable wealth...

 on 8 July 1890 and to La Carlota on 24 February 1891. A branch line from Venado Tuerto to Rufino

Rufino, Santa Fe

Rufino is a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 18,372 inhabitants as per the . It lies on the southwest of the province, from the provincial capital Santa Fe, near the borders with Córdoba and Buenos Aires , on the intersection of National Routes 33 and 7.The town was founded by...

 was opened on 11 March 1899.

On 20 September 1900 the company was bought by the British-owned Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway

Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway

The Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway was a British-owned railway company that built and operated a broad gauge railway network in Argentina, where it was known as the Ferrocarril Buenos Aires y Rosario....

 (BA&R). The sale included a concession already granted to the SF&CGS for the extension of the line from La Carlota to Río Cuarto

Río Cuarto, Córdoba

-References:* - Official website....

which the BA&R opened on 26 March 1902.