REFER, Rede Ferroviária Nacional, EP was the Portuguese rail infrastructure manager. It was a state-owned company and was created to manage the Portuguese rail infrastructure, previously under control of CP, which became exclusively a train service operator.
CP — Comboios de Portugal, EPE is a state-owned company which operates passenger trains in Portugal. Prior to June 2009, CP stood for Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses although the company has been using its current designation as a brand name since 2004.
The Tua Railway Station is a railway station located in the civil parish of Castanheiro do Norte e Ribalonga, in the municipality of Carrazeda de Ansiães, close to the confluence of the Douro River and the Tua River. The station is served by Comboios de Portugal (CP) main line trains on the Douro line to/from Porto.
The Cascais Line is a Portuguese railway line which connects the municipalities of Lisbon, Oeiras, and Cascais. The line starts in Lisbon, at Cais do Sodré and ends in Cascais. The first section, from Cascais to Pedrouços, was opened in 1889. The line was completed in 1895. It was the first heavy rail line to be electrified in Portugal, in 1926, and the last to be integrated into CP, in 1977. In July, 2020, CP announced that the line is slated to be converted from 1500 V DC electrification, to 25 kV AC, to match the rest of the network. Signalling will also be upgraded and new trains acquired.
The Tua line was a metre gauge railway line in northern Portugal, which connected Tua to Bragança. The line was opened in 1887 and closed in 2018. The section from Mirandela to Brunheda is planned to be reopened in 2019.
The Tâmega line(Linha do Tâmega) was a 1,000 mmmetre gauge railway line in northern Portugal. It closely followed the course of the Tâmega River. It closed in 2009.
The Sabor line(Linha do Sabor) was a 1,000 mmmetre gauge railway in north-east Portugal. It ran for nearly 106 km between Pocinho and Duas Igrejas, near Miranda do Douro. It closed in 1988.
Portugal formerly had several hundred kilometres of narrow-gauge railways, but by 2010 only two lines were still in operation – the Vouga line and the Metro de Mirandela. The lines were operated by Comboios de Portugal and maintained by REFER.
The Douro line is a 99-mile railway line in northern Portugal that runs from Ermesinde to the eastern terminus at Pocinho. The line runs close to the Douro River for much of its route, offering scenic views of the river and valley. Passenger trains are operated by Comboios de Portugal (CP) and run between Porto São Bento and Pocinho, taking 3 hours and 20 minutes. Freight trains operated by Medway also run on the line.
Linha do Sul is a Portuguese railway line which connects Campolide A, in Lisbon, and Tunes, in the Algarve. The first section, from Pinhal Novo to Setúbal, was opened in 1861. The route to Funcheira opened on 25 May 1920. In 2003 it was linked to Lisbon, crossing the Tagus River on the 25 de Abril Bridge.
Ramal de Braga is a branch line in Portugal, which connects Nine railway station on the Linha do Minho, with Braga. It was opened on 21 May 1875. and modernised in 2004.
The Cintura line is a railway line in Lisbon, Portugal. The half circle route was opened in 1888 and serves as a connection between all railway lines in Lisbon: The Cascais, Sul, Sintra, and Norte Lines. There are two railway triangles, one in Sete Rios, and another in Xabregas. It crosses all four Lisbon Metro lines, and connects to three of those at four stations.
Ramal do Estádio Nacional was a Portuguese railway branch line which connected Cruz Quebrada railway station, on the Linha de Cascais, to the Estádio Nacional. The terminus was located where the Jamor Olympic Swimming Complex is today.
Linha de Leixões, also known as Linha de Cintura do Porto, is a railway line in Portugal which connects the railway stations of Contumil in Porto on the Linha do Minho and Leixões, in Matosinhos, servicing the Port of Leixões. It is single track in Iberian gauge stretching over 18.9 km, equipped with EBICAB 700 control systems and RSC communications. The line was opened in 1938, and electrified in 1998. Passenger services ran until 1987 and from 2009 to 2011, otherwise the railway has remained open for cargo, transporting cargo in and out of the Port of Leixões.
Ramal de Matosinhos, originally called Ramal de Leixões, was a metre-gauge railway line which connected the stations of Senhora da Hora, on the Linha do Porto à Póvoa e Famalicão, to the Port of Leixões, in Portugal. It was built in 1884 to connect the port to the São Gens quarry. Later, it was adapted to passenger and freight transport. Commercial service began on the 6 May 1893. The line was closed on 1 July 1965. In the 2000s, part of the trackbed was used for the construction of Porto Metro Line A.
Ramal do Montijo, originally called Ramal de Aldegallega or Ramal de Aldeia Galega, the former name of Montijo, is a closed railway line which connected Pinhal Novo to Montijo, in Portugal. It was opened on 4 October 1908 and closed in 1989.
Barreiro is a railway station on the Alentejo Line that serves as a connection between rail services on the South Bank of the Tagus and Soflusa's river transport to Lisbon, Portugal. The first Barreiro station began operating on June 15, 1857, although it was not inaugurated until February 1, 1861. Since it was too far from the river pier, a new station was built and inaugurated in 1884. This station included an important workshop hub, which underwent extension work during the 1900s, but the facilities were becoming insufficient for the demand by the following decade. However, political and social instability, which was reflected in the administration of the railroads, dragged out the process. It was not until the 1930s that the new workshops were completed. Meanwhile, in 1923 the Ramal do Seixal branch line went into service, and in 1935 the railway between Barreiro and Lavradio was duplicated. The Barreiro station was remodeled and expanded in 1943, and in the 1950s the workshops began to house diesel locomotives from other lines that had been electrified. On December 14, 2008, a new Barreiro station was inaugurated, and the old one was closed.
Pocinho railway station is located on the Iberian gauge Douro line, which serves the town of Pocinho, in the municipality of Vila Nova de Foz Coa, in northern Portugal. It also served as a junction with the Sabor line from its opening in 1911 until its closure in 1988. Since 1988 the station has been the terminus of the Douro Line, following the closure of the section that extended to Barca d'Alva and the Spanish border. There have been calls for this section to be reopened.
Barca d'Alva railway station was the terminal station of the Douro Line, until its closure in 1988. The station used to serve Barca d'Alva and acted as a border station between Portugal and Spain, via the Barca d'Alva–La Fuente de San Esteban railway. It is located in the municipality of Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo, in Portugal.
The Portuguese Railway Company was the main railway operator in Portugal. Founded on 11 May 1860 by the Spanish businessman José de Salamanca y Mayol under the name Companhia Real dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses, it changed its name after the 5 October 1910 Revolution. In the first half of the 20th century, it underwent a process of expansion, assimilating several private railway companies and the railways that had been under the management of the Portuguese government. However, the effects of the Second World War, and the advance of road and air transport its economic situation deteriorated to such an extent that, after the Carnation revolution, the company had to be nationalised and transformed into a new institution, called Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses [Portuguese Railways].
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