Linha da Póvoa

Famalicão – Porto

View of Póvoa de Varzim

Route length:

59.8 km

1000 mm ( meter gauge )

	0.0	Vila Nova de Famalicao
		Linha do Minho ( Valença - Porto )
	02.9	Barradas
	05.1	Outiz
	06.9	Cavaloes
	09.1	Gondifelos
	12.3	Balazar
	13.7	Fontaínhas
	15.7	Rates
	20.7	Laundos
	25.6	Amorim
	29.3	Póvoa de Varzim
	32.6	Vila do Conde
	34.5	Azurara
	37.6	Mindelo
	40.2	Vila Chã
	41.5	Modivas
	43.3	Vilar do Pinheiro
	46.4	Pedras Rubras
	48.0	Crestins
	52.2	Custóias
		Linha de Guimarães
	53.3	Senhora da Hora
	54.6	Circunvalação
	55.2	Ramalde
	56.4	Franco
	57.7	Avenida França
	59.8	Porto Trindade

The Linha da Póvoa is a railway line on the north coast of Portugal . The line has now been closed and a new connection has been added to the Porto suburban network.

history

The first section of the Linha da Póvoa was opened on October 1, 1875 as the first Portuguese narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 900 mm and represented a rail connection with a length of 27.7 km between Porto and Póvoa de Varzim . The sections Póvoa de followed later Varzim - Fontaínhas (Ramal de Famalicão) with 15.6 km on August 7, 1878 and finally from Fontaínhas to Vila Nova de Famalicão on the Linha do Minho on June 12, 1881. In addition, there was a branch line from Senhora da Hora to the port of Leixões in 1893 . This section was closed in 1966. The operator was the Caminho de Ferro do Porto á Póvoa de Varzim e Vila Nova de Famalicão (PPF). In 1928 the line was combined with the Guimaraes line in the Companhia dos Caminhos de Ferro do Norte de Portugal (NP) and re-gauged in 1000 mm.

Current

New connection after 2002 via the metro to the greater Porto area

On December 31, 1995, the section of the Linha da Póvoa from Póvoa to Famalicão was closed. In 1999 the Linha da Póvoa was assigned to the Metro do Porto . This transition was completed with the closure of the lines from Senhora da Hora to Póvoa and from Senhora da Hora to Trofa ( Linha de Guimarães ) in 2002.

literature

Herbert Stemmler: The narrow-gauge railways in northern Portugal . In: Wolfgang Messerschmidt (Ed.): Locomotive magazine . No. 68 . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, W. Keller & Co. , 1974, ISSN 0458-1822 , p. 372-384 .