The station was located close to the intersection of Alvear (current del Libertador) and Pueyrredón avenues.

The stop was located in the area currently defined by Figueroa Alcorta and Pueyrredón avenues, near to the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar and La Recoleta Cemetery.

Recoleta was also the first destination of the "train of the dead" during the yellow fever epidemic of 1871, until the South and Chacarita cemeteries were opened.

In 1888, the BANR was acquired by Central Argentine Railway and the station became part of that line to run services to Tigre.

[2] The Recoleta station operated until 1915, when the entire original route tracks of the BA Northern Railway between Retiro and Palermo were lifted and replaced by a new quadruple track closer to Río de la Plata.