Estrada de Ferro Campos do Jordão

Santo Antonio do Pinhal station

Route length:

47 km

1000 mm ( meter gauge )

EF Campos do Jordão

	km 0.0 - Pindamonhangaba
	Pindamonhangaba Subúrbios
	6 - Mombaça
	8 - Cerâmica
	10 - Sao Miguel
	11 - Agent Hely
	12 - São Judas Tadeu
	13 - Expedicionários
	17 - Pq. the Águas Claras
	18 - Vovó Laurinda
	19 - Quilômetro 19
	20 - Piracuama
	28 - Eugênio Lefevre
	30 - Pagé
	31 - Renópolis
	35 - Tanaka
	36 - Gavião Gonzaga
	37 - Cacique
	? - Toriba
	38 - São Cristóvão
	40 - Sanatórios
	41 - Fracalanza
	42.8- Campos do Jordão
	- Damas
	47- Capivari
	Emilio Ribas

The Estrada de Ferro Campos do Jordão is a railway line and railway company in the Brazilian state of São Paulo and connects the places Campos do Jordão and Pindamonhangaba . Today only passengers are carried on this railway line. It is a tourist attraction and the company is state owned by the State of São Paulo and administered by the Secretariat for Sports and Tourism.

history

The Estrada de Ferro Campos do Jordão was proposed by the doctors Emílio Marcondes Ribas and Victor Godinho for the transport of the patients to the higher altitude climatic health resort Campos do Jordão in the Serra da Mantiqueira . The prevailing climatic conditions there meant that tuberculosis could be treated there.

The rail line was to connect the town of Pindamonhangaba in the valley of the Paraíba River with Campos do Jordão. Construction began in 1910 and opened on November 15, 1914. The route is 47 km long and the track width is 1000 mm.

In 1924 the entire line was electrified by the English Electric company .

Between the stations of Piracuama and Parada Cacique, the highest rail line in Brazil, also called Alto do Lageado, was built at 1743 m.

Alto do Lageado, the highest point on a rail line in Brazil at 1,743 m
Section with an 11% gradient

Web links

Speech Ferroviária - Estrada de Ferro Campos do Jordão (EFCJ)
Estrada de Ferro Campos do Jordão ( Memento from July 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Portaldecampos.com.br
government information on rail lines in Brazil