Várzea Paulista (CPTM)

Railway station in São Paulo, Brazil

Preceding station	São Paulo Metropolitan Trains			Following station
Jundiaí Terminus		Line 7		Campo Limpo Paulista towards Luz
Jundiaí Terminus		Service 710		Campo Limpo Paulista towards Rio Grande da Serra

Track layout

Legend

					to Jundiaí






					to Campo Limpo Paulista

Várzea Paulista is a train station on CPTM Line 7-Ruby, located in the city of Várzea Paulista.

History

Várzea station was opened on 1 July 1891, in a rural area of Jundiaí, during the first period of the railway modernization. The development of that region remained stagnant until 1923, when the chemical company L. Queiroz & Cia obtained lands in the city and built a factory next to the railway and the station, leading new residents to the location, known as Várzea, district of Jundiaí. In 1954, the district was briefly renamed to Secundino Veiga, as the station. In the following decades, Várzea Paulista was emancipated and the station is transferred from federal to state administration.^[1]

Currently, the station attends to the CPTM trains with the name of Várzea Paulista. On November 2011, in the 120th anniversary of the station, a set of buildings was certified as historical site by the CONDEPHAAT.^[2] CPTM hired a project of a new building for the station, similar to the current one, but there is no deadline for the start of the construction, budgeted at R$ 40,000,000 (US$ 18,552,108.56).^[3]

References

^ Mennucci Giesbrecht, Ralph. "Várzea Paulista" (in Portuguese). Estações Ferroviárias do Brasil. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
^ "Várzea Paulista - Estação Ferroviária" (in Portuguese). InfoPatrimônio. Archived from the original on 26 January 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
^ "Prefeitura conhece projeto de nova estação ferroviária" (in Portuguese). Prefeitura de Várzea Paulista. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2019.