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[ED] RENFE operates to Vilar Formoso. | [ED] RENFE operates to Vilar Formoso. | ||
==(Entroncamento -) Marvāo CP - Valencia do Alcántara RENFE== | ==(Entroncamento -) Marvāo Beirã CP - Valencia do Alcántara RENFE== | ||
Line closed. All through freight traffic was discontinued on 5 February 2012, leaving the Lusitania (Lisboa - Madrid sleeping car train) as the only train covering the whole of this route. This will be rerouted from 15 August 2012 and the line closed. CP worked to Valencia do Alcántara. | Line closed. All through freight traffic was discontinued on 5 February 2012, leaving the Lusitania (Lisboa - Madrid sleeping car train) as the only train covering the whole of this route. This will be rerouted from 15 August 2012 and the line closed. CP worked to Valencia do Alcántara. | ||
Revision as of 10:25, 6 August 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 Beirã CP - Valencia do Alcántara RENFE
Line closed. All through freight traffic was discontinued on 5 February 2012, leaving the Lusitania (Lisboa - Madrid sleeping car train) as the only train covering the whole of this route. This will be rerouted from 15 August 2012 and the line closed. CP worked to Valencia do Alcántara.
(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 The daily passenger service was withdrawn on 5 June 2004, and reinstated on 13 December 2009.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.
