The Merida-Cancun route of the Mayan Train with new departure times

The Merida-Cancun route of the Mayan Train The line now has two new departure times due to high demand on that stretch, the director general of the project, Óscar David Lozano Águila, announced today.

Since last Friday, July 26, the Cancun-Merida route is available at 11:45 a.m. and the Merida-Cancun route at 2:40 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online: reservas.ventaboletostrenmaya.com.mx and www.trenmaya.gob.mx or at the ticket offices of the Tren Maya stations.

The general director of the Maya Train specified that there are currently six other schedules:

• 9 hours. Palenque-Cancun
• 9:30 am Cancun-Palenque
• 7 hours. Campeche-Cancun
• 16:30 hours. Cancun-Campeche
• 7 hours. Merida-Playa del Carmen
• 17:30 hours. Playa del Carmen-Merida

Last weekend, The Mayan Train achieved a record with more than 3 thousand passengers on board, he highlighted in a morning press conference with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

How many passengers has the Mayan Train already transported?

From December 16, 2023 to July 23, 2024, the Maya Train has mobilized 276,825 passengers on the different available sections.

Section 3 from Calkiní, Campeche, to Izamal, Yucatán, is the busiest route for tourists. A total of 73,143 people were transported, of which 3,575 were children and 69,568 adults; 55,174 tickets were purchased at the station ticket offices and 17,969 online.

Of the total number of tickets, 37,212 correspond to national passengers, 18,909 local, 3,900 international and 13,122 special tickets with discounts for teachers, students, people with disabilities and senior citizens.

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Stations of Section 3 of the Mayan Train

Section 3 consists of 160 kilometers of railway line in 15 municipalities of Campeche and Yucatán. The route has six stations: Calkiní, Maxcanú, Umán, Mérida-Teya, Tixkokob and Izamal. The 60-kilometer section of double-track electrified line begins in Mérida.

In this regard, the general director of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), Manuel Bartlett Díaz, pointed out that the agency is building 690 kilometers of electrified track on the Yucatan Peninsula for the operation of the Maya Train, equivalent to an area larger than that of the Netherlands, Denmark and Switzerland combined.

The CFE also participated in the creation of the Nachi Cocom Photovoltaic Plant in Yucatán, with a capacity of 7 megawatts, which will provide energy to the electric buses of the Ie-Tram public transport system, 53 major works, 11 transmission lines and 42 substations that provide traction power to the Mayan Train.

The Mayan Train to Progreso

Lozano Águila also announced that starting in 2025 there will be a multimodal terminal in Progreso and a railway bypass that will connect the railway operations center in Poxilá to Progreso. “We will have fuel loading stations, specifically at the storage and dispatch terminal there in Progreso.”

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