Railway nationalisation in Argentina
Celebrations at Retiro (FCCA) train station | |
| Date | 1 March 1948 |
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| Location | Argentina |
| Theme | Selling of the Argentine rail transport network to the Government of Argentina |
| Cause | World War II Financial problems |
| Participants | British and French rail transport companies Government of Argentina |
The railway nationalisation in Argentina occurred on 1 March 1948, during President Juan Perón's first term of office, when the seven British- and three French-owned railway companies then operating in Argentina were purchased by the state. These companies, together with those that were already state-owned, where grouped, according to their track gauge and locality, into a total of six state-owned companies which later became divisions of the state-owned holding company Ferrocarriles Argentinos.