Campeche Central will have 11 passenger trains

Published August 12, 2022

by Beto Espinosa

The works of the Mayan Train continue to advance and its scheduled end for 2023 is approaching, with this, a new passenger route will be added to the Mexican rail system. Although ‘El Chepe’ is probably the most popular of the trains that still transport people in the national territory, it is not the only one.

There are currently three routes operating in the states of Baja California, Chihuahua-Sinaloa and Jalisco.

The “Chepe”

In approximately nine hours, the train travels more than 350 kilometers from Los Mochis, Sinaloa to Creel, Chihuahua, a Magical Town located in the heart of the Sierra Tarahumara, an area also known as Las Barrancas del Cobre.

It is a series of imposing canyons that join these two states of Northern Mexico.

Tequila Express

The route of this train goes from Guadalajara to Tequila, making what is known as the “tequila route”. The journey is approximately two hours. Tijuana-Tecate This route goes from Tijuana to the Magical Town of Tecate. The train has capacity for 280 people and the journey lasts two and a half hours. Among its stations are the Abelardo L. Rodríguez dam, Valle de Guadalupe and Miguel Hidalgo Park, in the Magical Town of Tecate.

Farewell to the train in Puebla

Until 2021 there was another passenger train route in operation in Mexico and it was in Puebla. It was the Puebla-Cholula Tourist Train, which made its last run in December of last year.

One of the plans of the Government of the 4T is to revive the passenger train service to have a total of 11 by the year 2050. In February of this year, Deputy Miguel Torruco Garza published a map on social networks that contains the 11 lines of the train route that are planned to connect the country in 2050.

The routes are as follows:

1. Pacific Train with an extension of 4,700 kilometers.

2. El Chepe, 673 kilometers.

3. Western Train, with an extension of 2,250 kilometers in pink.

4. Eastern Train, with an extension of 2,000 kilometers.

5. The route of the Transversal Train, 1,200 kilometers long.

6. Tren del Golfo, with an extension of 1,650 kilometers.

7. The Tren del Bajío, with 1,500 kilometers.

8. Downtown Train with 1,300 kilometers.

9. Isthmus Train, with a length of 300 kilometers.

10. Oaxaca train of 750 kilometers. 11. The 1,800 kilometer Mayan Train.

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