stations of Belgrano, San Martín (where the company had built its workshops and depots), Villa Ballester. From then on, trains ran on about 40 km of wetlands, also crossed by several rivers, Las Conchas River among them. Those obstacles required to build many bridges and two viaducts, one over Las Conchas River and another over Luján River. In April 1874 Matti formed the "Compañia del Ferrocarril a Campana" (in English: "Buenos Aires and Campana Railway"). Development On January 13, 1876, the line made its first journey from Central Station to Campana. Presidents of the railway companies involved in the project were part of the inaugural trip. The company ran a total of 4 services per day (2 forward and 2 return trains). Each trip took an average of three hours. Due to the great success, the Buenos Aires and Campana Railway requested to extend its tracks from Campana to Rosario. This request was approved therefore the company transferred its shares to a recently formed company, named "Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway". The main track extended to Zárate, then to Baradero (1885), reaching Rosario at the end of 1885, setting terminus in Rosario Norte Station (formerly named "Sunchales", located on Aristóbulo del Valle and Ovidio Lagos Avenues). The first service to Rosario ran from Central Station of Buenos Aires on February 1, 1886. From this point on the rate of expansion of the company increased and from Rosario the line was extended to Gálvez (October 1886), Rafaela (March 1887), Sunchales (June 1887) (all cities of Santa Fe Province), La Banda (September 1890) and Tucumán (February 1891). Branch lines were built from San Lorenzo to Puerto San Martín and Puerto Cerana (1889), from Bernardo de Irigoyen to Santa Fe (1892), Gálvez to San Francisco (1890), from La Banda to Santiago del Estero (February 1891), and from Cevil Pozo to El Chañar (1896). On 9 August 1890 the company acquired a 22 km line from Coghlan junction, on the main line, to Tigre, which put the company in direct competition with the Central Argentine Railway. That made Buenos Aires connected with the rest of Argentina for the first time, through a railway that extended to Córdoba, Tucumán and Santiago del Estero provinces. By the mid-1890s the BA&R was the second largest British-owned railway company in Argentina and was effectively challenging the Central Argentine's monopoly of the north-west of the country. On 20 September