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The Posadas-Encarnación International Train is a commuter rail international service operated between Posadas in Argentina and Encarnación in Paraguay, running on the Urquiza Railway standard gauge tracks. The service was opened in January 2014.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Trenes: Randazzo inauguró el servicio que unirá Posadas y Encarnación )〕 ==Overview== Trains are run by private company Casimiro Zbikoski S.A. under an operation agreement with State-owned Operadora Ferroviaria Sociedad del Estado (SOFSE).〔 The train crosses the San Roque González de Santa Cruz Bridge which joins the two countries together and has an average journey time of 10 minutes with a 30-minute frequency.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Empezó a circular el tren que une Posadas y Encarnación )〕 The current rolling stock consists of two-carriage diesel-hydraulic railcars originally called "Wadloper", built between 1981 and 1983 by German company DÜWAG for the Dutch railway company Nederlandse Spoorwegen,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Tren Posadas-Encarnación )〕 and have a capacity to carry 250 people. Those railcars had been previously used in the binational service ''Tren de los Pueblos Libres'' that joined Argentina and Uruguay,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Habilitan el tren de los pueblos libres )〕 having been active only for one year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Un descarrilamiento anunciado )〕 With passenger numbers increasing rapidly after the aperture of the service, the Argentine Ministry of the Interior and Transport stated in March 2015 that it may have to evaluate adding more rolling stock and extending the length of the platforms.〔 Customs officials are only present on the Argentine side of the railway, with entry into both countries managed from there. In August 2015, the service was suspended for an unspecified period of time, with no reasons given from both, the concessionaire –Casimiro Zbikoski– and Trenes Argentinos. At the time of the service being suspended, the train had carried 250,000 people within the year.〔 On the other hand, the Government of Paraguay stated that they had no objections to anything related to the service, blaming the Argentine authorities for the suspension of the train.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Argentina suspende tren de forma unilateral )〕 Other versions affirmed that the service could be reestablished the second week in September.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Tren Posadas-Encarnación: la semana próxima habría novedades )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=El tren a Encarnación dejó de operar y tomó por sorpresa a sus usuarios )〕 On 7 September, service resumed as normal, though the three-week interruption had not been explained.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=El servicio del tren Posadas- Encarnación funciona con normalidad )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Posadas-Encarnación International Train」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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