Tulum railway station
Tulum | ||||||||||||
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| Location | Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 20°14′48″N 87°27′12″W / 20.24680°N 87.45339°W | |||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||
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| Opened | January 2024 (planned)[1] | |||||||||||
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Tulum is a future train station near Tulum, Quintana Roo. The station will cover an area of 81,000 m2, in addition to 1,429 tons of metal structure and 25,687 m2 of structural concrete. It is part of the Tren Maya system.
Tren Maya
Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced the Tren Maya project in his 2018 presidential campaign. The system's Tulum station was placed on the eastern route connecting Cancún, Quintana Roo and Escárcega, Campeche.[2]
This station will be the first of two Tren Maya stations in the Tulum Municipality, alongside the future Tulum Airport 27 kilometres (17 mi) southwest of the urban area of Tulum.[3]
References
- ^ "El 15 de diciembre inicia ruta Palenque-Cancún; todos los tramos, para febrero: AMLO". sinembargo.mx (in Spanish). October 6, 2023. Retrieved October 23, 2023.
- ^ López Obrador, Andrés Manuel. "Hoy tomamos la decisión de construir el Tren Maya, incluyendo Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán y Quintana Roo, de 1,500 km con un presupuesto estimado de 120 a 150 mil millones de inversión mixta, es decir, pública y privada". Twitter (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ^ "Tren Maya - GobMX". Archived from the original on 4 May 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2023.