#1642
La Brugeoise cars (Buenos Aires Underground)
🇦🇷 Argentina ·built by La Brugeoise et Nivelles· from 1913· Buenos Aires Underground Line A rolling stock (1913–2013)
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. La Brugeoise car at Plaza de Mayo: Carlos Daniel Dobelli· CC BY 2.0
what is it?
La Brugeoise cars were the Buenos Aires Underground (Subte) Line A rolling stock since its inauguration in 1913 until 2013, when they were replaced by new Chinese stock. They were built by the Belgian rolling stock manufacturer La Brugeoise et Nivelles between 1911 and 1919 for the Anglo-Argentine Tramways Company's (Compañía de Tranvías Anglo-Argentina (CTAA) in Spanish) first underground line. They were originally designed to run both as metro and tramway cars, but they were refurbished in 1927 for underground use only.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 113 years ago, in 1913.
- Weighs about as much as 5 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 15.8 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 120: 2 full city buses (~50 seats each).
- Served for 100 years (1913–2013).
metro: Urban rapid transit: frequent, high-capacity trains, often underground.
spec sheet
- built
- 1913
- in service from
- 1913
- retired
- 2013
- status
- retired
- number built
- 125
- kind
- metro
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇦🇷 Argentina
- builders
- La Brugeoise et Nivelles
- operators
- Metrovías
- top speed
- 50 km/h
- power
- 86 kW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- 550/1,100 V DC Overhead
- formation
- Maximum 6 cars per trainset (limited by platform length)
- length
- 15.8 m
- weight
- 27 t
- capacity
- 120 passengers
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5487341, Wikipedia: La Brugeoise cars (Buenos Aires Underground) (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.