EFCB - Linha do Centro

Rio de Janeiro – Monte Azul
Linha Central railway line and branch lines
Route length:	1354 km
Legend 0.0 Dom Pedro II (Central Rio de Janeiro ) Praça da Bandeira São Cristóvão Quinta Maracanã Mangueira Sao Francisco Xavier Rocha Riachuelo Sampaio Engenho Novo Silva Freire 9.5 Meier Todos os Santos Engenho de Dentro Encantado Piedade Quintino Bocaiúva Cascadura 16.7 Madureira Ramal Circular da Madueira Osvaldo Cruz Bento Ribeiro Marechal Hermes 22.05 Deodoro Ramal de Mangaratiba Ricardo Albuquerque Anchieta Olinda Nilópolis Edson Passos Mesquita Presidente Juscelino Nova Iguaçu Comendador Soares Austin Queimados Engenheiro Pedreira 61.75 Japeri EFCB - Linha Auxiliary 64.86 Guedes da Costa Ramal de Paracambi Ellison Mario Bello Engenheiro Gurgel Divorce Palmeira da Serra Paulo de Frontin Humberto Antunes Mendes nova Mendes-velha Martin's Costa Morsing Santana da Barra Ramal da Barra 108.2 Barra do Piraí Ramal de Sao Paulo Aristides Lobo Bacia de Pedras Demetrio Ribeiro 128.53 Barao de Vassouras Ramal de Jacutinga Bridge over the Rio das Pedras Barão de Juparanã Ramal de Jacutinga Desengano Bridge Pedreira do Paraíso Bridge over the Rio Paraíso Teixeira Leite Sebastiao de Lacerda Aliança Casal Carlos Niemeyer Andrade Pinto Vieira Cortez 187.23 Paraíba do Sul EFCB - Linha Auxiliary Barao de Angra EFCB - Linha Auxiliary 197.66 Três Rios Linha do Norte Linha de Três Rios-Caratinga Fernandes Pinheiro Serraria Souza Aguiar Paraibuna 229.23 Afonso Arinos Ramal Afonso Arinos border Minas Gerais state Sobragi Cotegipe Matias Barbosa Cedofeita Mestre Ivo Retiro 275.11 Juiz de Fora Ramal de Juíz de Fora Mariano Procópio Cerâmica Francisco Bernardino Barbosa location Setembrino Carvalho Coronel Felício Lima 288.63 Benfica Ramal de Lima Duarte Dias Tavares Chapéu D'Uvas Bridge over the Rio Paraibuna Ewbank da Câmara Sergio de Macedo 324.09 Santos Dumont Ramal de Piranga Recenvindo Mantiqueira Cabangu Rocha Dias João Ayres Coronel Araújo Antonio Carlos Doutor Sá Fortes 378.24 Barbacena Linha do Paraopeba - EFOM / RMV Joaquim Murtinho Linha de Carandaí (variant) Sanatório Alfredo Vasconcellos Bias forts Ressaquinha Hermillo Alves Herculano Penna Christiano Ottoni Lobo Leite Crockatt de Sá 498.26 Miguel Burnier Ramal da Ponte Nova Engenheiro Corrêa Itabirito Esperança Aguiar Moreira Monteiro de Barros Rio Acima Honório Bicalho Raposos Mestre Roque 582.63 Sabará Ramal de Era Nova Roça Grande Castro Brandão 590.50 General Carneiro Ramal de Paraopeba (variant) Engenheiro Hebster Captain Eduardo Carreira Comprida Santa Luzia Ribeirão da Mata Vespasiano Nova Granja Doutor Lund Pedro Leopoldo Wilson Lobato Matosinhos Peri-Peri Arcoverde 672.0 Prudente de Morais Ramal de Calsete Sete Lagoas Venceslau Braz Silva Xavier Carvalho de Almeida Araçaí Taboquinhas Cordisburgo Quintino Vargas Maquiné Mascarenhas Gustavo da Silveira Curvelo Captain Evaristo Osório de Almeida Cerradão 852.17 Corinto Ramal de Diamantina Ramal de Pirapora Aporá Marísia Augusto Lima Corumataí Buenópolis Joaquim Felício Catoni Bueno do Prado Engenheiro Dolabela Granjas Reunidas Engenheiro Navarro Torquato Leite Bocaiuva Camilo Prates Closely. Pires e Albuquerque Glaucilandia Antonio Olinto 1115.86 Montes Claros Canaci Uratinga Suassu Engenheiro pikeperch Orion Engenheiro M. Lopes Quem-Quem Engenheiro Rochert Janaúba Tocandira Pai Pedro Catuti Catuti 1354.3 Monte Azul VFFLB - Linha da Bahia

The EFCB Linha do Centro is a railway line in Brazil that runs from Rio de Janeiro to the neighboring state of Minas Gerais . This line was the heart of the railway company Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil , which was taken over from 1957 in the RFFSA Rede Ferroviária Federal SA.

history

The starting point of the railway line was the Dom Pedro II station in the center of Rio de Janeiro - from here it led through the Serra das Araras and was completed as far as the Barra do Piraí in 1864. Further stages of completion were:

• Rio de Janeiro - Barra do Piraí (1864)
• Barra do Piraí - Juiz de Fora (1875)
• Juiz de Fora - Pedro Leopoldo near today's Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais (1895)
• Pedro Leopoldo - Pirapora on the Rio São Francisco (1910) later RAMAL DE PIRAPORA
• Bridge over the Rio São Francisco and Independencia Station (1922)
• Acquisition of the Ramal de Diamantina: Corinto - Diamantina (1923)
• Completion of the Ramal de Montes Claros (1926) later the main line
• Completion of the last expansion stage up to Monte Azul in Minas Gerais (1948)

The plan was to continue the line past today's Belo Horizonte to the Rio São Francisco and then even further to Belém in the Pará province in Amazonia.

In fact, the track construction arrived in Pirapora on the Rio São Francisco in 1910. However, the bridge over the river was little used after the Independencia train station opened on the other side of the river in 1922. A former siding of the Ramal de Montes-Claros became the end point in the last expansion stage of the railway line. The section that was to be led out across the river was not expanded. It was later called Ramal de Pirapora . In the last expansion stage in 1948 to Monte Azul, the EFCB - Linha do Centro was 1,354.2 kilometers of rail. Here the line had a connection to the route network of the railway company VFFLB - VF Leste Brasileiro , which maintained railway lines coming from São Paulo to Salvador da Bahia in the state of Bahia. The last passenger trains ran on the EFCB Linha do Centro routes between Montes Claros and Monte Azul Minas Gerais until 1996 and from Barra do Piraí to Rio de Janeiro as part of the passenger service between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. This service was also completely discontinued in 1998, with the exception of a few purely tourist departures. Otherwise, the entire Linha Central is still used today for freight traffic. In the greater Rio de Janeiro area , suburban trains run on the rail lines.

Overview of the sidings and parallel lines

The EFCB Linha do Centro received a number of parallel routes over time:

• Linha do Paraopeba in Minas Gerais from Congonhas do Campo to Carvalho de Brito
• Linha do Carandaí in Minas Gerais by Dorival Brito after Ilídio

Various siding lines:

• Ramal Circular de Madureira (Rio de Janeiro)
• Ramal de Mangaratiba also Ramal de Angra (Rio de Janeiro)
• Ramal de Paracambi (Rio de Janeiro)
• Ramal de Matadouro (Rio de Janeiro)
• Ramal de Jacutinga (Rio de Janeiro)
• Ramal da Barra (Rio de Janeiro)
• Ramal de Sao Paulo (Rio de Janeiro)
• Ramal Afonso Arinos (Rio de Janeiro)
• Ramal da Ponte Nova (Minas Gerais)
• Ramal de Lima Duarte (Minas Gerais)
• Ramal de Pirapora (Minas Gerais)
• Ramal de Diamantina (Minas Gerais)
• Ramal de Calsete (Minas Gerais)
• Ramal de Era Nova (Minas Gerais)
• Ramal de Piranga / Mercês (Minas Gerais)

Various intersections with lines from other railway companies:

• Linha do Norte ( Leopoldina )
• Linha de Três Rios-Caratinga - (Leopoldina)
• Ramal de Juíz de Fora (Leopoldina)
• Linha do Paraopeba - EFOM / RMV
• Linha da Bahia - VFFLB

Web links

• Railway stations and routes in Brazil (Portuguese)
• Visit to the Simplicio train station at Além Paraíba on the Linha Auxiliar (Portuguese)
• Historical route map (sections of the route in Rio de Janeiro from 1928) (Portuguese)
• Historical route map (sections of the route in Minas Gerais from 1928) (Portuguese)