Saturday 2 July 2011

Tucuman Railway Station in Argentina, South America built by Andrew Handyside in 1889.

Andrew Handyside who built Friargate bridge in Derby also built quite a few Railway Stations in the UK and around the world, Since starting my Handyside research and launching this blog I am begining to discover more and more of these stations. Here is a recent discovery in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, South America.

This is Tucuman Railway Station or Terminal station of the General Railroad Mitre (Former Argentinean Central Railroad). In Spanish that is Estación Terminal del Ferrocarril General Mitre.

This railway station is 6709 miles away from Derby where it was manufactured. That distance is "as the crow flies" so it would have travelled much further than that when it was delivered.
The station is absolutely full of Handyside's ironwork from the roof, support columns and decorative ironwork. Its amazing to see this local ironwork on the other side of the planet.


The station was inaugurated on 6th February 1891 when the first train arrived the from Buenos Aires after a 32 hour journey. The original name of this railway station was “Sunchales”.

Here is a selection of photographs taken in june 2011. I would like to thank Cecilia Laskowski for taking these photographs and Lucía Juárez for her assistance.
I have also recently been told about yet another Handyside railway station in Argentina, which is in Santiago Del Estero which I hope to post about at some point in the future.

Photographs of Tucuman Railway Station:
Tucuman Railway Station built by Andrew Handyside.

Very decorative ironwork roof supports by Handyside.
Tucuman Railway Station built by Andrew Handyside.

The Handyside ironwork in the car park.
Tucuman Railway Station built by Andrew Handyside.

Close up of the roof structure.
Tucuman Railway Station built by Andrew Handyside.

View of the support columns with Handyside badges
Tucuman Railway Station built by Andrew Handyside.

Ornate cast iron decoration on the top of a column.
Tucuman Railway Station built by Andrew Handyside.

A view of the platforms and Handyside roof structure.
Tucuman Railway Station built by Andrew Handyside.

A long row of Handyside support columns.
Tucuman Railway Station built by Andrew Handyside.

Map Location:
View my Andrew Handyside World Map to see the exact location of this railway station on my world map.
My world map is the result of hundreds of hours of research into the company, plotting out each item as I find it.

Can you help find more Andrew Handyside stuff ?
If anyone out there knows of any other railway stations around the world bearing the Handyside badge that I have not mentioned yet then please get in touch with details, location, photographs etc.

Thanks
Andy
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2 comments:

  1. Richard Hannay8 July 2011 at 13:23

    Hi Andy, sorry for the off-topic comment, but there's been a few developments around Friargate Bridge recently I don't know if you're aware of. In the past week or so a sign went up on the Markeaton side of the Bridge on the track that goes up the side of the bridge to the old railway line saying parking for Mercia College.

    Since then there's been a lot of clearance up that track behind the Friargate Court flats including burning cut down branches etc - I don't know if it was a bonfire that got out of hand which led to a fire at about 1am Monday morning which resulted in the Fire Brigade turning up to put it out

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  2. Roof Restorations Adelaide3 August 2012 at 10:45

    That is fantastic roof work that has endured for as long as it has. It would be an absolute treat to be able to see it for real!

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