The San Martin train linewhich connects the Buenos Aires district of Luján with the City of Buenos Aires, will work from this Thursday, February 9 with Sunday and holiday hours “until new notice”. The inconvenience is due to technical problems due to the little amount of formations that are roadworthy.
This was reported by the state company Argentine Trains through a brief statement, in which it was specified that this measure was taken due to “the lack of availability of rolling stock”. Currently, this line operates with seven of the 13 formations with which it has to function, since a “rdelay in the maintenance process“.
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The problems in the formations had already begun to affect the service during the last days. In this way, the frequency of the San Martín line of the trains that leave both from José C. Paz and from Pilar to CABA it is about 30 minutes between 1:20 and 5:30; while it was reduced to approximately 20 minutes between 5:30 and 19:30.
From that time until 20:24, each train leaves again every half hour. Those who leave the station Dr. CabredThey do it every hour and a quarter. The same happens in the opposite direction.
Recently the service came to suffer cancellations and delays, in the morning, up to an hour for “operational problems”according to the official account of Twitter of the state company.
For this reason, it was decided to continue providing the service, but with a shorter diagram and with reinforcements only at peak times.
“Staff are informed that as a result of the lack of availability of rolling stock, as of Thursday 02/09/23 and until further notice, the circulation of trains will be carried out from Monday to Sunday, with “SCHEDULE OF SUNDAYS and HOLIDAYS “, indicates the letter released by Trenes Argentinos to its staff about this branch, which weeks ago was also several hours interrupted by a bomb threat.
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