The Ferrocarril Oeste de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Western Railway) was inaugurated on 29 August 1857, the first railway built in Argentina. The locomotive La Porteña was built by the British Hunslet Engine Company in Leeds, suitably enough carrying road number 1. It was apparently used until 1948.
The route in the Spanish gauge of 5'6" initially stretched 10 km from Plaza Del Parque station (now the site of the Teatro Colón) to Floresta station, which at that time was located in San José de Flores village, but is now within Buenos Aires city limits. The line was extended 8 km to Ramos Mejía, in 1859 to Morón and in 1860 to Moreno, with which the route reached 39 km in length. The Western Railway is currently owned by the Ferrocarril Domingo Faustino Sarmiento railway company.
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