Tijuana station

Tijuana station Estación de Tijuana
Current freight rail station, former passenger station
General information
Location	Av Ferrocarril 1, Libertad, 22400 Tijuana, Baja California Mexico
Coordinates	32.542105°N 117.026245°W / 32.542105; -117.026245
Operated by	Baja California Railroad
Platforms	1
Tracks	6
Construction
Parking	For 68 automobiles
Other information
Status	Open for freight use
Website	https://www.bajarr.com/en/stations/
History
Opened	December 1919
Closed	~1951 (passenger use)
Former services[1]
Preceding station Southern Pacific Railroad Following station San Ysidro toward San Diego San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Main Line Agua Caliente toward El Centro

Tijuana station (Spanish: Estación de Tijuana) is a former passenger rail station and current freight rail station located in Tijuana, Baja California.

History

The station is located on the Tijuana-Tecate railroad line, which was built by concession on April 3, 1908. In 1907, the Inter-California Railway, a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad, began construction. Its goal was to connect the port of San Diego, California, with Yuma, the entry point to the mining region of Arizona, through a route through Mexican soil that began in Tijuana and ended in Algodones. near the north-eastern tip of the Baja California Peninsula. The Tijuana station, built a few steps from the international dividing line, was completed in December 1919 by the San Diego and Arizona Railway.[2]

Services

The station is currently housed in a three-story building of 1,000 square meters, which contains new administrative offices, an operations and logistics control center, offices for ADMICARGA, customs control, a customs agency, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and the State Committee for Plant Health.

There is also parking space for sixty-eight 18-meter automobiles.[3] The original train station, built in the late 1920s, will be converted into a railway museum.

The new station is where administrative and operations offices are located, in addition to being where the customs procedures necessary for a safe border crossing are carried out.[4]

References

1. "Southern Pacific Railroad Timetable" (PDF). February 1949. p. 9.
2. "Tijuana". Secretaría de Cultura/Sistema de Información Cultural (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-09-25.
3. "Buscan mejorar vía férrea de Tijuana-Tecate". 30 August 2015. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
4. "Estación de Intercambio Tijuana | Baja Railroad" (in Mexican Spanish). Baja California Railroad. Retrieved 2023-06-14.