Tulum railway station

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Tulum
General information
Location Tulum Municipality, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Coordinates 20°14′48″N87°27′12″W / 20.24680°N 87.45339°W / 20.24680; -87.45339
Platforms2
Tracks4
History
Opening20 September 2024 [1] [2]
Services
Preceding station Logo Tren Maya horizontal with slogan.svg Tren Maya Following station
Tulum Airport Tren Maya Playa del Carmen

Tulum is a train station near Tulum, Quintana Roo, on 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 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]

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References

  1. Xiu Chan, Justino (September 20, 2024). "Vecinos de Felipe Carrillo Puerto viajan entusiasmados en el Tren Maya". poresto.net (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved September 21, 2024.
  2. Chi, Martín (September 6, 2024). "AMLO y Claudia Sheinbaum supervisan tramo 5 sur del Tren Maya en Quintana Roo". poresto.net (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved September 7, 2024.
  3. 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.
  4. "Tren Maya - GobMX". Archived from the original on 4 May 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2023.