Northwestern Brazil Central Station

The Bauru Station (NOB) is the starting point of the Estrada de Ferro Noroeste do Brasil (NOB) ("Brazil's Northwest Railroad"). Opened in 1906, it consisted of a simple wooden building attached to the Bauru Station of the Sorocabana Railroad. With the growth of traffic, the wooden building was temporarily extended until the construction of a definitive station opened in 1939. The last long-distance passenger trains left the station in 2001. In 2006, the administration was transferred to the Bauru City Hall, which had been managing it since then. In 1904, the Companhia Estrada de Ferro Noroeste do Brasil was created. Composed of Belgian, French, and Brazilian financing, its objective was to link Bauru to the city of Cuiabá. Work on the railroad began in November 1904, starting from the Bauru station of the Sorocabana Railroad, completed in July 1905. The Bauru station of the Noroeste was erected in the vicinity of the Sorocabana station. Consisting of a wooden building, it was inaugurated together with the railroad on September 27, 1906. Even so, the Noroeste operation still used the Sorocabana station as a boarding point for some time. The first Noroeste station became smaller in the face of growing passenger boarding. With the arrival of Companhia Paulista tracks in 1910, Bauru was consolidated as an important São Paulo railroad junction. With the design of a new station in the 1930s, the wooden station experienced its final years. At the end of the construction work on the new station in 1938, it was demolished while passengers used temporary platforms until the new station was opened. At the end of the 1910s, the Noroeste do Brasil Railroad situation was precarious. It was in poor condition, the stations were made out of wood, provisional and with a rotten structure, and employees were poorly paid. The new Minister of Transportation and Public Works José Pires do Rio appointed engineer Arlindo Luz (1871-1959) to run Noroeste and improve the railroad. With the investiture of engineer Luz, the administrative headquarters of the railroad was transferred from Rio de Janeiro to Bauru. The lack of adequate space to house the company's offices made engineer Luz sp

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