Historic Tramway Of Buenos Aires Private Tour

This visit to Caballito neighborhood will let us come back to Buenos Aires in its early Twentieth-century years. Tourists and neighbors will enjoy a ride on board some of the many different tramways, some of them being more than 100 years old.

The old cars built by Argentine Tramways Co., were best known in the past as Preston, the English city name where this British manufacturer workshops were located.

The trams were working until 1961, when the Executive Power decreed that all cable car services should be annulled. It seemed that modernization did not contemplate one of the most beloved and most picturesque public transports in the city. But, as it is usually the case, what remains in the collective memory has a second chance. Therefore, and as a result of the inestimable and very perseverant action of the Asociación Amigos del Tranvía (Cable Car’s Friends Association), four of the cars were rescued from oblivion and restored according to pictures and testimonies from the past days. Thus, at the workshops, located in Caballito district, the members of the association managed to give the cars their original aspect (including the Fileteado drawings and their typical sky blue color) with which they reached these lands across the Atlantic almost a century ago.

The streetcars leave every twenty minutes and go through typical arteries in a district that preserves its old grand houses, a singular tree grove, and its petit hotels. As a result, this area has a particular identity.

This Buenos Aires Tram tour is recommended to relax and go back to an unhurried rhythm city