Xochimilco Light Rail - Stations

Stations

• Tasqueña – Terminal. Connects with Metro Line 2 and the city's southern intercity bus station, which serves cities like Acapulco, Cuernavaca, and the entire Republic south of the capital. Its logo is an eclipsing moon / crescent moon.

• Las Torres – Station. Its name comes from Avenida Las Torres ("The Towers"). Its logo is a picture of two high-voltage pylons.

• Ciudad Jardín – Station. Its name is given from nearby residential estate with same name. (Ciudad Jardín means Garden City). Its logo is the shape of an apartment block.

• La Virgen – Station. Its name is given from nearby Calzada de La Virgen ("Virgin Avenue"). Its logo is a stylised depiction of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

• Xotepingo – Station. Its logo is a tree.

• Nezahualpilli – Station. Its logo is Nezahualpilli's head. Near the station is Mexico City's automobile museum.

• Registro Federal – Station. Its name is given from nearby former offices of the federal automobile registration department. Its logo is the front of a car.

• Textitlán – Station. Its logo is a plant like a maguey or agave.

• El Vergel – Station. Its name is given from El Vergel neighbourhood, near the station. Its logo is a grapevine (vergel means grapevine).

• Estadio Azteca – Switching station and repair workshops for the light rail line. The station stands across from the Aztec Stadium sports arena, and its logo is a side view of the stadium. This was also the starting point of the service to Tlalpan, along Calle Ferrocarril (Renato Leduc), which opened as light rail in 1990 (having closed as tram line 53 in 1984) but ran for only one year and then later for another ten months before closing for good in October 1992. Some tracks are still visible (others are buried under asphalt), and the platforms of the stations still remain.

• Huipulco – Station. Named after the nearby district of Huipulco. Its logo is a pre-Hispanic glyph.

• Xomali – Station. Its logo is the shape of something like a flower.

• Periférico – Station. Its name comes from the city's nearby outer ring-road (Nearby are the facilities of the Tecnológico de Monterrey private university. The station's logo depicts a road junction.

• Tepepan – Station. Its name is given from a hill and a town with the same name. There was once a tramway destiny. One of the best (and last) pulquerías of Mexico City, "Nomás no llores", is near. Its logo is the Aztec representation for a hill.

• La Noria – Station. Its name comes from the zone where the station is. Noria means water well; its logo shows a well.

• Huichapan – Station. Its logo is a river with trees at its sides.

• Francisco Goitia – Station. Its name is given from a street and a zone nearby. Francisco Goitia was a painter. The station's logo is an artist's palette. From the opening of the Tren Ligero between Estadio Azteca and Xochimilco, in 1988, until September 1995, this was the line's terminus and was named "Xochimilco" station. Some tourist maps and media are still being published with the former name.

• Xochimilco (previously known as Embarcadero, opened in 1995) – Terminal. Named after the town of Xochimilco, famous for its boat rides in boats called trajineras. Also, for the wide river zone, where so many representatives of the different flora and fauna that once existed throughout the Valley of Mexico can be found. The terminal's logo is the ancient glyph for Xochimilco.