1,181", and then renamed after General Manuel Fernández Oro (1848–1910), who took part in the Conquest of the Desert.

[1] It features the typical architectural design of stations built by Ferrocarriles del Sud at the end of the 19th century.

Since 1993 the line has carried only freight services, being currently operated by private company Ferrosur Roca.

General Fernández Oro railway station was part of a strategic project to build a railroad to transport military personnel towards the Andes area, in view of the possibility of a military conflict with Chile.

The station is nowadays the Estación Cultural Lucinda Larrosa Museum, an exhibition center first conceived as a museum of natural sciences and regional history that nowadays holds periodical artistic exhibitions.