Enthusiast's Guide to Travelling the Railways of Europe

PORTUGAL (Portugal)

Lines with obscure or sparse passenger services

This list is based on the service valid at 31 December 2009, with the last major revision to timetables having occurred on 13 December 2009. CP no longer publish a national railway timetable, so the table numbers used (prefixed TCE) are those in the "European Rail Timetable" published by Thomas Cook.

CP's timetable periods nominally coincide with those in the rest of Europe, but in practice timetables are changed on an ad hoc basis, often with little notice.

Standard abbreviations used are explained in the General Information document.

Last update for this page: 07 February 2010.

Obscure services

Lisboa Santa Apolónia (Bif. Xabregas) — Chelas [TCE 693] (25B2-3 not shown) PT10/1

This south to west curve links Santa Apolónia station with Entrecampos and beyond.

  SuX R 6401 05:07 Lisboa Santa Apolónia - Caldas da Rainha
  SSuO R 6403 05:55 Lisboa Santa Apolónia - Caldas da Rainha
  SO R 6420 Caldas da Rainha - 21:17 Entrecampos - Lisboa Santa Apolónia
  SX R 6422 Caldas da Rainha - 23:52 Entrecampos - Lisboa Santa Apolónia

Amieira — Reveles (Bif. Verride) [TCE 693] (17A2) PT10/2

This south to east curve provides a direct route between the Leiria and Coimbra directions, avoiding reversal in the Figueira da Foz area.

    IR 803 Caldas da Rainha - 17:34 Louriçal - Coimbra
  SX IR 802 Coimbra - 19:37 Verride - Caldas da Rainha

Valdera (Poceirão west junction) — Pinheiro (Bif. Aguas de Moura Sul) [TCE 697] (26A2) PT10/3

This direct line avoids the more circuitous route via Setúbal. It is used only by Porto - Lisboa - Algarve express services.

    AP 180 Porto Campanhã - 09:30 Pinhal Novo - Faro
    AP 186 Porto Campanhã - 19:31 Pinhal Novo - Faro
    AP 182 Faro - 07:26 Tunes - Porto Campanhã
    AP 184 Faro - 15:25 Tunes - Porto Campanhã

Deletions since last edition

PT09/3 (Coimbra — Coimbra-Parque): line closed on 4 January 2010 for conversion to "Metro de Mondego"

Other sparse services

The following lines have few trains (relative to service levels generally in this country) - fewer than four trains each way on at least three days a week - or do not run every day of the week:

TCE 691 Abrantes - Torre das Vargens - Valéncia de Alcántara (Spain) / Badajoz (Spain)
TCE 692 Vilar Formoso - Fuentes de Oñoro (Spain)
Águeda - Sernada do Vouga - Oliveira de Azeméis
TCE 696 Valença - Tui (Spain)
TCE 697 Beja - Funcheira

On the following lines, the train service has been replaced by buses due to planned or emergency engineering work, with uncertain or unknown dates for resumption of rail operation:

TCE 691 Guarda - Covilhã
TCE 693a Pampilhosa - Cantanhede - Figueira da Foz
TCE 694 Livração - Amarante
TCE 694 Régua - Vila Real
TCE 694 Tua - Cachão

Last complete update 8 January 2010. Subsequent amendments: none.

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