Dec. 15 News:
Public Service Announcement:
The first Tren Maya trains started running on schedule this monring on some special INAUGURAL ROUTES between Cancun – Merida- Campeche one just subpart … of just one level … of Tren Maya’s 5 different kinds of trains.
(Editor’s professional estimate).
Touristic Trains, Local Passenger Trains, Express Trains … and FREIGHT RAIL Service to Merida:
In addition to Express Trains (high speed rail) and Touristic Trains that ALL use the major stations (Estaciones – see below), and the Local Passenger trains (stopping at lots of local smaller Paraderos) … also consider how the Tren Maya will deliver container loads of materials & goods from the Asian Tigers directly to shops & factories in Merida.
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Ticket Pricing on these INITIAL INAUGURAL … slow train … short routes:
(see more below in the early Dec. update section)
and yes, these values above come from Tren Maya’s Instagram page.
And from Merida’ ticket office yesterday:
and from Campeche:
https://www.eticket.mx/trenmaya/
Tickets are listed online, but the website is still not working. Tickets can be purchased for NOW at the San Ramón Norte TREN MAYA office in NIA Tower on Avenida Camara de Comercio:
aka … C49 #255 x C34 y C47 Diag.
Bring your ID. 😉
As described above, these INAUGURAL ROUTE trains will depart Merida (Teya) at 9:36 … and arrive at the Cancun airport station at roughly 1:30.
Dec. 4, 2023 Update
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:
https://www.eticket.mx/masinformacion.aspx?idevento=31722
~NEW NOTICE~ Dec. 15, 2023
One poster from the beach just announced:
” I was on eticket.mx today and it shows a ticket for Sunday Cancun – Merida leaving at 7:00 am for $735 pesos for tourist ticket. ”
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Nov. 7, 2023 Original news
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.
~ The Cancun to Palenque route (Tramos 1 through 5) are planned to open by Feb. 29, 2024.
Background Information:
“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:
“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:
Las estaciones que están proyectadas para la operación en distintas fases del proyecto son las siguientes:
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 …
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