Dec. 4 UPDATES:
The Tren Maya Program’s 5 levels of service … on 7 sections of tracks … will be starting on different dates, starting on Dec. 15 for the Campeche to Cancun round trip TOURIST service.
Tickets for the Campeche-Cancun TOURIST service route go on sale Dec. 1, 2023.
The Cancun-Campeche route shows just 2 Tourist trains per day right now leaving at 7:00 AM and 11:00 AM … with the same prices & same times whether you depart from Cancun Airport, or from Campeche City:
Estación Cancún: Cancún, Quintana Roo & Estación Campeche: Campeche:
CLASE TURISTA – ADULTO $1,166.00
CLASE PREMIER – ADULTO $1,862.00
https://www.eticket.mx/masinformacion.aspx?idevento=31722
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Nov. 7, 2023 Original news
Tren Maya … “Tsíimin K’áak” … LATEST UPDATES:
AMLO announced several details about the various Tren Maya programs yesterday.
~ Passenger rail tickets will go on sale Dec. 1, 2023 for “Tramo 2, 3, y 4 del Proyecto Ferroviaro” … (See link below for details)**
Obviously tickets will being sold for just the completed parts of the 5 different Tren Maya sub-programs.
~ As a general rule: Ticket prices will be set at 10% lower than the bus costs for the same routes. Past reports said that the cheapest slow train, stopping at all the local stops, will charge just $50 pesos. The next level up (lujo) of the slow train with local stops may cost $75 peso. The fast Tourist Train will be priced 10% below the typical bus prices for the same routes.
~ Just as our government will inaugurate (open) Le Parque La Plancha in Merida on Sunday, Nov. 19, they will inaugurate the stop at the Cancun International Airport on Dec. 1 .
~ The Campeche to Cancun loop (Tramos 2, 3, & 4 – see map below) will OPEN for service on Dec. 15, 2023.
(Read details below)
~ The Cancun to Palenque route (Tramos 1 through 5) are planned to open by Feb. 29, 2024.
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Background Information:
**”The route of the Tren Maya is made up of seven sections (7 tramos) of approx. 1460 km (total).”
“Section 2 of the Tren Maya covers 234 km from Campeche, from Escárcega to Calkiní, with a route that crosses six municipalities and 31 towns, You can ascend and descend at two stations and three stops, reported the general director of the National Fund for Tourism Promotion (Fonatur)… “
SEE Red-Line in this map:
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10227980972483409&set=pcb.10227981011364381= = = =
“The Mayan Train track in Section 2 (Tramo 2) is already finished and consists of 234 kilometers throughout six municipalities, from Escárcega to Calkiní, in the state of Campeche,
“The Mayan Train track in Section 2 (Tramo 2) is already finished and consists of 234 kilometers throughout six municipalities, from Escárcega to Calkiní, in the state of Campeche,
where the works have generated 27 thousand jobs, reported the general director of the Mayan Train company, Óscar David Lozano Águila.”
“.. the Campeche Railway Bypass, of 18.76 kilometers that is being built as a very important component of this route, the five viaducts were also completed and the 49 pedestrian, vehicular and wildlife crossings … “
” … on this Section 2 route, the Mayan Train benefits more than 535 thousand people who live in the area according to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).”
” … the Section 2 route will have five stations located in Carrillo Puerto-Champotón, Edzná, San Francisco Campeche, Tenabo and Hecelchakán, as well as a Maintenance Base in Edzná and an operations yard in Pomuch as part of the infrastructure that will provide the transportation service. cargo on the Mayan Train. “
” ESTACIONES:
(Major railway stations – not including minor local stops)
Las estaciones que están proyectadas para la operación en distintas fases del proyecto son las siguientes:
1. Palenque
2. Tenosique
3. Balancán
4. Escárcega
5. San Francisco de Campeche
6. Mérida
7. Izamal
8. Chichen Itzá
9. Valladolid
10. Cobá
11. Cancún
12. Puerto Morelos
13. Playa del Carmen
14. Tulum
15. Felipe Carrillo Puerto
16. Bacalar
17. Chetumal
18. Xpujil “
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NOTICE that the “Estaciones” are the major railway stations for the ~fast~ Tourist train version of Tren Maya to stop at … MEANWHILE the 2 levels of slower Passenger local trains will have lots of additional local stops (Paradereos)
Be sure to look at the second map below for all the smalller local stops – Paraderos – for the 2 slower levels of passenger trains …
and the Nov. 6 , 2023 Matutina – as reported in the Nov. 7, 2023 “La Jornada Maya”
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Somebody should tell MX.gob that not everybody uses FaceBook!
It’s on the Mexican news… It’s on the daily telly … It’s reported in the Mexican press.
It’s only ME that put it onto FaceBook to rescue Spanish-challenged gringos. 😉
Cheers, Steve
OR ‘X’ or WhatsApp, or Instagram etc….older individuals might have an Internet only laptop….the Government should be multi-facet in its approach….
Andrew,
What are you trying to suggest?
😉
Destruction of the jungle is heartbreaking. But as a potential tourist, this looks interesting.
Does the first train compeche to Cancun go by way of Merida or on blue track …can you get off on the way at places it stops and get back on next day??
First … There are NO main passenger-line station stops in Merida.
The passenger trains run South of Merida … with stops at Teya and outside of Uman. There is a station in Merida Centro’s new Gran Parque La Plancha … with trams running (starting later) down to the stations outside of Merida.
I report this, because the tickets being sold now are for Campeche to Cancun … with no stops in Merida, because the internal-tram system inside Merida is not completed yet.
Cheers … (and patience)
Steve
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