NOTE:
No transfer between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. Passengers with through
tickets make their own arrangements for crossing the border.
NATIONAL RAILWAYS
of MEXICO
THE SYSTEM THAT SERVES
ALL MEXICO
Sleeping Cars...Ciudad Juarez and Mexico
City—12-Sections, 1 Drawing-room.
Chihuahua
and Mexico City—10 Sections, 1 Drawing-room, 2 Double Bedrooms.
Mexico
City and Aguascalientes—12-Sections, 1 Drawing-Room.
Mexico
City and Leon—10-Sections, 3 Double Bedrooms. (On Train No. 232
Southbound to Irapuato and on Train No. 6 from Irapuato to Mexico
City.) [See Note]
Diner and Observation-Lounge Car.
Coaches...(reserved and unreserved seats).
(N de M 1962 Public Timetable Notes)
TRENES
QUE TIENEN SERVICIO DE DORMITORIOS PULLMAN, CARROS
COMEDOR Y OBSERVATORIO CON CLIMA ARTIFICIAL
TRENES 7 Y 8 "EL FRONTERIZO"
Carro comedor...Mexico - Ciudad Juarez
Carro Bar-Observatorio...Mexico - Ciudad Juarez.
Carro de primera especial con 64 asientos numerados...Mexico - Ciudad
Juarez.
CARROS PULLMAN
Mexico - Aguascalientes...12 secciones y gabinete.
Mexico - Ciudad Juarez...12 secciones y gabinete.
Mexico - Chihuahua...10 secciones, gabinet y 2 alcobas.
*Mexico - León...10 secciones y 3 alcobas.
*Este dormitorio regresa en Num. 232 a Irapuato en donde es agregado a
Num. 6 a las 1h17m. Los pasajeros podran desalojar el carro en León
hasta las 7h30m. y abordario desde las 21h30m. para salir a las 22h30m. [See translation and note below.]
El Fronterizo was the name under which this service between Ciudad Juárez (just across the border from El Paso) and México City operated in the early 1960s.
This timetable confirms my suspicions that the N de M timetables in the Official Guide were heavily condensed. In transcribing this timetable, I also used a Spanish-language public timetable which Streamliner Memories had been kind enough to post. In the table below, where you see both a miles and a kilometers entry you are looking at an entry from the Official Guide. Where you see only a kilometerage you are seeing an entry which the Guide left out...roughly, 3 out of every four station stops. While I'm not going to go back and edit my earlier timetables, I do plan to use this resource to create some new pages from this time period which should show a more complete picture of Mexican passenger service.