Tulum | |||||||||||
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Location | Tulum Municipality, Quintana Roo, Mexico | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 20°14′48″N87°27′12″W / 20.24680°N 87.45339°W | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opening | 20 September 2024 [1] [2] | ||||||||||
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Tulum is a train station near Tulum, Quintana Roo, on the Tren Maya system.
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 International Airport and Escárcega, Campeche. [3]
This station is the first of two Tren Maya stations in the Tulum Municipality, along with a station at the Tulum International Airport 27 km (17 mi) southwest of the urban area of Tulum. [4]
The Tren Maya is a 1,554 km-long (966 mi) intercity railway in Mexico that traverses the Yucatán Peninsula. Construction began in June 2020 and the Campeche–Cancún section began operation on December 15, 2023, with the rest of the line to open later. The railway begins in Cancún International Airport and travels southwest towards Palenque, Chiapas, via two routes that encircle the peninsula.
Palenque railway station (Spanish: Estación de Palenque, referred to as Pakal Ná by Tren Interoceánico, is a railway station located between the towns of Palenque and Pakal Ná in Chiapas, Mexico. The station was built on the territory of a former airport. It is the southern terminus of the Tren Maya.
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