Pasco Sur Ghost Station

The platform

Line A opened on December 1, 1913, the first subway in South America. The Compañía de Tranvías Anglo Argentina built it, and Tomás Palastanga, a former SBASE employee who studies the subway's history, has said it was first conceived as an underground streetcar, with stops set close together the way streetcar stops were.

Two of those stops, Pasco and Alberti, were built with side platforms set slightly out of line with each other. Pasco's south platform, Pasco Sur, served trains heading west toward Caballito. A 1938 photograph held by Argentina's national archive shows its stair entrance on the Rivadavia sidewalk, under a sign reading "Subterráneo Plaza Once" and "Caballito," while a crew repaves the avenue in front of it.

August 6, 1951

On August 3, 1951, La Nación printed a resolution from the Corporación de Transportes de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. From the following Monday, trains on the Caballito line would no longer stop at Alberti's north platform on the way to Plaza de Mayo, and in the other direction they would no longer stop at Pasco's south platform. That Monday was August 6. Palastanga gives spacing as the reason: Pasco Sur sat too close to Congreso, and Alberti Norte sat too close to Plaza Miserere. The two closures left each station serving one direction, which is how both still work. Pasco takes only trains toward Plaza de Mayo, and Alberti takes only trains heading west.

Many accounts give 1953 instead. That year comes from the yearbook of Transportes de Buenos Aires, a newly formed state company, which put the closure on August 6, 1953. That date was a Thursday. SBASE's own site gives 1951.

Behind the wall

Pasco Sur was never rebuilt. A brick wall went up along the platform edge, with a grated gap at the top for ventilation, and the platform became a store for track maintenance materials. In December 2023, enelSubte reported that the 1913 tiles, ironwork, floors, and enamel signs were still in place behind it. The old stairs have been stripped of their original finish, and two concrete slabs block the exit to the sidewalk, where a small grate lets in a little light from Rivadavia. People have photographed the platform through the gap in the wall and through slots in the gates.

Alberti Norte went a different way. In the 1980s, it held mannequins dressed in 1920s clothes. It now houses an electrical substation for Line A, installed in December 2004 by La Nación's account and in 2006 by enelSubte's.

A decree of May 16, 1997, declared the original Line A stations from Plaza de Mayo to Plaza Miserere National Historic Monuments. The decree lists Pasco and Alberti together as one entry.

The museum plan

In February 2022, SBASE announced a plan to restore Pasco Sur as a subway museum, cataloging what survives and opening an entrance from the street through one of the original stairs. The preliminary design received 500,000 pesos in cultural sponsorship funding. In December 2023, enelSubte reported the design still at a preliminary stage, with a presentation expected in 2024. In February 2026, La Nación reported that the government describes the project as paused while other work on the network takes priority.

The bride

The best-known story at Pasco Sur is about a bride who threw herself onto the tracks after she was left at the altar, and whose ghost walks the platform. Another version has her parents forcing her into the marriage. A white cross painted in the tunnel nearby is tied to the story. A second legend, repeated by El Destape in June 2026, has two Italian workers killed in a collapse during construction and their deaths hidden. El Destape added that none of it has been verified, and historian Carlos Campana told La Nación in February 2026 that no official records show workers dying at Pasco Sur.

People who work on the line place the bride somewhere else. In 2020, Manuel Niz, a track supervisor, pointed La Nación to the single-track tunnel between Plaza Miserere and Alberti Norte. In the version he knew, her groom had left her at the nearby church of Nuestra Señora de Balvanera. "I never saw her," Niz said, "but just in case, I don't go through there."

Pasco Sur is seen from the train. Westbound Line A trains, running toward San Pedrito, pass it without stopping between Congreso and Alberti, and the old platform is on the left-hand side just after the train leaves Congreso. Most of what shows is the brick wall. When the tunnel is well lit, the empty platform is visible through the gap above it.

There is no public platform access. Check current Line A service information before traveling. A view from the train depends on tunnel lighting.