sentences:  Enrrique Meiggs during the administration of Peruvian president José Balta, and began on 9 June 1871.The work was done in three stages, the first of which was from Chimbote to Planks, inaugurated in 1877.The second stage, from Planks to Chuquicara, was inaugurated in 1892 by means of a contract with the Peruvian Pacific Railway.