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Home / 2023 / Christmas/New Year Holiday 2023/4 / Porto area - 31 December 2023 29

Sunday 31 December 2023: The day started with travelling over the two tram routes in Porto, which use heritage vehicles; plus a visit to the very interesting museum which includes both historic tram cars and power generation and substation equipment. Next I visited the two CP branches north of Porto: to Braga and to Guimarães. I was able to fit in both on the loco-hauled InterCity services rather than the normal EMU workings. I went the short distance north to get the inbound train from Pocinho again, but it was a DMU rather than the normal 1400 loco - perhaps due to it being New Year's Eve. I failed to find anywhere to eat around the hotel - everywhere was either very busy or closed - so I caught the metro back to Campanhã where I knew there was an Indian/Italian restaurant.
See trip report for the full itinerary, traction details and notes.