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==(Entroncamento -) Marvāo CP - Valencia do Alcántara RENFE==
==(Entroncamento -) Marvāo CP - Valencia do Alcántara RENFE==
[D] On the only passenger train of the day, the Madrid - Lisboa overnight service, the CP diesel locomotive works through to Valencia do Alcántara. CP wishes to divert this train via Vilar Formoso and combine it with the Sud Express. RENFE and the Spanish regions are opposed to this. However, all freight traffic was removed on 5 February 2012, leaving the Lusitania as the only train on this route.
[D] On the only passenger train of the day, the Madrid - Lisboa overnight service, the CP diesel locomotive works through to Valencia do Alcántara. CP wishes to divert this train via Vilar Formoso and combine it with the Sud Express but this now seems to be in abeyance. RENFE and the Spanish regions are opposed to this. However, all through freight traffic was removed on 5 February 2012, leaving the Lusitania as the only train covering the whole of this route.


==(Entroncamento -) Elvas CP - Badajoz RENFE==
==(Entroncamento -) Elvas CP - Badajoz RENFE==

Revision as of 09:37, 18 May 2012

All rail routes between this pair of countries are 1668mm gauge.

(Porto -) Valença do Minho CP - Tui RENFE (- Vigo)

[D] Two passenger train pairs operate between Porto and Vigo. These are the only passenger trains that serve Tui.

(Porto - Pocinho -) Barca de Alva CP - Fregeneda RENFE (- Salamanca)

Line closed. In August 2009 the Portuguese Secretary of State for Transport announced that Pocinho to Barca de Alva was to be reopened for tourist traffic, especially to the Coa Valley Archaeological Park, a World Heritage Site. RENFE announced plans some years ago to reopen their section for cross border freight. However, both of these projects are victims of the present financial crisis.

(Pampilhosa -) Vilar Formoso CP - Fuentes de Oñoro RENFE (- Salamanca)

[ED] RENFE operates to Vilar Formoso.

(Entroncamento -) Marvāo CP - Valencia do Alcántara RENFE

[D] On the only passenger train of the day, the Madrid - Lisboa overnight service, the CP diesel locomotive works through to Valencia do Alcántara. CP wishes to divert this train via Vilar Formoso and combine it with the Sud Express but this now seems to be in abeyance. RENFE and the Spanish regions are opposed to this. However, all through freight traffic was removed on 5 February 2012, leaving the Lusitania as the only train covering the whole of this route.

(Entroncamento -) Elvas CP - Badajoz RENFE

[D] CP works to Badajoz. The daily passenger service was withdrawn on 5 June 2004, and reinstated on 13 December 2009. The entire Torre das Vargens - Elvas - Badajoz RENFE line closed to pasengers on 1 January 2012.

See also