Compañía General de Ferrocarriles en la Provincia de Buenos Aires

The Compañía General de Ferrocarriles en la Provincia de Buenos Aires, usually abbreviated CGBA, was a French-owned railway company formed in 1904 that ran a metre-gauge network in Argentina. It took over a concession to build lines linking the ports of Buenos Aires and Rosario and running to La Plata, along with branch lines in the west and south of Buenos Aires Province. The company faced hard competition from the large British-owned railways that already served the most profitable districts, so its plans for a line to Bahía Blanca and for further branches were dropped. When the government of Juan Domingo Perón took over the railways in 1948, the CGBA became part of Ferrocarril Belgrano. Several branches were closed in 1961 and most remaining ones in 1977, and only the line to González Catán survived into later operators.