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Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado (abbreviated EFE, lit. State Railway Company ) is the national railway and the oldest state-run enterprise in Chile . It manages the infrastructure and operating rail services in the country.
The Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a La Paz was a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge railway line established at the end of the 19th century as "Antofagasta (Chili) and Bolivia Railway Company". Until the mid-1970s, the line provided cargo and passenger transport services between the towns of Antofagasta , Ollagüe and La Paz .
Chile's railways (except for a few dedicated industrial lines [3]) are operated by the state owned company Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado (EFE), which completed a major investment programme in 2005. [4] The rail system once served the entire country, running rail lines from Arica in the north to Puerto Montt in the south.
The State Railways Institution (Spanish: Instituto de Ferrocarriles del Estado, or IFE) is a state-run organization of Venezuela that manages the railway systems of the country. Its headquarters are located in Caracas, Venezuela. According to the 1999 Constitution, its renovation is a national priority. The new infrastructure which has been ...
In 2019, Renfe solicited bids for 31 new trains for the Asturias and Cantabria regions and the €258m contract was awarded to the CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles) in June 2020. Around February 2023, authorities discovered the designs were for the wrong loading gauge and would be too wide for the tunnels. [ 9 ]
In 1987, the Empresa de Ferrocarriles del Estado (Chile's State Railroad Company or EFE) stopped the remodeling works and Estación Mapocho was decommissioned. The serious structural decay and lack of use caused the station to be abandoned. [ 3 ]
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Argentine State Railway (in Spanish: Ferrocarriles del Estado) was a State-owned railway company of Argentina, established by Law N° 6.757 in October 1909, when José Figueroa Alcorta was the President of Argentina. The company built and operated railway lines in Argentina.