Várzea Paulista (CPTM)

Várzea Paulista
View from a TUE Mafersa Hitachi 1700 stopped in the platform of the station.
Location	R. Antônio Feres, s/n Centro Brazil
Coordinates	23°12′33″S 46°49′47″W / 23.209047°S 46.829658°W / -23.209047; -46.829658Coordinates: 23°12′33″S 46°49′47″W / 23.209047°S 46.829658°W / -23.209047; -46.829658
Owned by	Government of the State of São Paulo
Operated by	CPTM
Platforms	Side platforms
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Other information
Station code	VPL
History
Opened	1 July 1891
Previous names	Várzea Secundino Veiga
Services
Preceding station   CPTM   Following station Jundiaí Terminus Line 7 Campo Limpo Paulista toward Brás Jundiaí Terminus Service 710 Campo Limpo Paulista toward Rio Grande da Serra

Track layout
Legend
to Jundiaí to Campo Limpo Paulista

Várzea Paulista is a train station on CPTM Line 7-Ruby, located in the city of Várzea Paulista.

History[]

Várzea station was opened on 1 July 1891, in a rural area of Jundiaí, during the first period of the railway modernization. The development of that region remained stagnant until 1923, when the chemical company L. Queiroz & Cia obtained lands in the city and built a factory next to the railway and the station, leading new residents to the location, known as Várzea, district of Jundiaí. In 1954, the district was briefly renamed to Secundino Veiga, as the station. In the following decades, Várzea Paulista was emancipated and the station is transferred from federal to state administration.^[1]

Currently, the station attends to the CPTM trains with the name of Várzea Paulista. On November 2011, in the 120th anniversary of the station, a set of buildings was certified as historical site by the CONDEPHAAT.^[2] CPTM hired a project of a new building for the station, similar to the current one, but there is no deadline for the start of the construction, budgeted at R$ 40,000,000 (US$ 18,552,108.56).^[3]

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