The Ferrocarril Provincial de Buenos Aires (FCPBA) (in English: Province of Buenos Aires Railway) was a company that operated a 902 km 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge metre gauge railway network in the Province of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Founded in 1907 as the Ferrocarril Provincial del Puerto de La Plata al Meridiano V, the company changed its name to FCPBA in 1924, in 1951 it was taken in to state ownership and in 1953 it was absorbed by the state-owned Ferrocarril General Manuel Belgrano. The FCPBA should not confused with the similarly named French–owned Ferrocarril Compañía General en la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CGBA) which also operated in the Province.
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