British heritage in Lomas de Zamora: the train stations

Remedios de Escalada is a traditional train station. Just behind the bridge which is next to Hipólito Yrigoyen Avenue (also known as Pavón Avenue) lies the old community of Remedios de Escalada. This was the place where the Banfield workshop workers lived. Here one can find a few blocks of houses that resemble the working class neighbourhoods in London.  The following train station owes its name to Edward Banfield, the first manager of The Big South Railway (as it was called then). You will see that in the area between Alvear, Las Heras and Vieytes; the British style buildings grow in importance - it is no longer a working class town nowadays - and we can find many beautiful English houses, including some Tudor style ones.  The next, and most important train station is Lomas de Zamora. Its design dates from 1864. The gardened chalets built for railway executives near railway stations gave Lomas, Banfield and Temperley a pointed English atmosphere to these areas, especially in winter when shrouded in grey mists and fallen oak leaves over cobblestones.