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In 1948 the railway network of 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...

 was nationalisation

Railway Nationalisation in Argentina

In 1948, during President Juan Perón’s first term of office, the seven British-owned and three French-owned railway companies then operating in Argentina, were purchased by the state...

 by the president Juan Perón

Juan Perón

Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer, and politician. Perón was three times elected as President of Argentina though he only managed to serve one full term, after serving in several government positions, including the Secretary of Labor and the Vice Presidency...

. The previously privately-owned French and British railway companies, together with a number of companies that had been nationalised earlier, (Córdoba Central Railway

Córdoba Central Railway

The Córdoba Central Railway was a British-owned railway company, founded in 1887, that operated a 1960 km metre gauge...

, 1939, and others), were formed into the following six state-owned companies:

• Ferrocarril Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
  Ferrocarril Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
  The Ferrocarril Domingo Faustino Sarmiento , named after the former Argentine president, statesman, educator, and author Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, was one of the six state-owned Argentine railway companies formed after President Juan Perón's nationalisation of the Argentine railway network in 1948...
  
  
• Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre
  Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre
  Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre , named after the former Argentine president Bartolomé Mitre, was one of the six state-owned Argentine railway companies formed after President Juan Perón's nationalisation of the railway network in 1948...
  
  
• Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano
  Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano
  Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano , named after the Argentine politician and military leader Manuel Belgrano, was one of the six state-owned Argentine railway companies formed after President Juan Perón's nationalisation of the railway network in 1948...
  
  
• Ferrocarril General Roca
  Ferrocarril General Roca
  Ferrocarril General Roca , named after the former Argentine president Julio Argentino Roca, was one of the six state-owned Argentine railway companies formed after President Juan Perón's nationalisation of the railway network in 1948...
  
  
• Ferrocarril General San Martín
  Ferrocarril General San Martín
  Ferrocarril General San Martín , named after the former Argentine general José de San Martín, was one of the six state-owned Argentine railway companies formed after President Juan Perón's nationalisation of the railway network in 1948...
  
  
• Ferrocarril General Urquiza
  Ferrocarril General Urquiza
  Ferrocarril General Urquiza , named after the Argentine general and politician Justo José de Urquiza, was one of the six state-owned Argentine railway companies formed after President Juan Perón's nationalisation of the railway network in 1948...
  
  

These companies later together formed Ferrocarriles Argentinos

Ferrocarriles Argentinos

Ferrocarriles Argentinos was a public company that managed the entire Argentine railway system for nearly 45 years. It was formed in 1948 when all the private railway companies were nationalised during Perón's first presidential term, and transformed into the Empresa de Ferrocarriles del Estado...

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