History
On 7 March 1864, in a ceremony attended by the president Bartolomé Mitre, construction began on the site of the present-day railway terminus at Plaza Constitución in Buenos Aires, and the line of 114 km as far as Chascomús was completed in 1865. The first terminus was completed in 1885 and on 19 September 1925 a foundation stone for the rebuilding of the terminus was laid by the Prince of Wales, later Duke of Windsor, during his official visit to Argentina.
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