Linha de Leixoes

Contumil – Leixoes
Leixoes harbor
Route length:	18.7 km
Gauge :	1668 mm ( Iberian track )
Legend continue towards Porto-Campanhã 0.0 Contumil Linha do Minho to Valença Linha do Douro to Pocinho 1.4 Vila Cova 4.0 Sao Gemil 5.3 Pedrouços da Maia 7.7 Sao Mamede de Infesta 9.3 Arroteia 10.6 Leça do Balio 12.0 Custió - Araújo 13.3 Gondivinho 15.1 Ponte do Carro 18.7 Leixões

The Linha de Leixões is a 18.7-kilometer Portuguese railway line between Contumil ( Porto ) and the Portuese suburb of Leixões in the Matosinhos district .

Until September 2009, the route served exclusively for freight traffic to the port of Leixões, with twelve trains running daily. At the initiative of the city of Porto, preparations began in summer 2009 for the resumption of passenger traffic. Both REFER and CP invested in the route in order to be able to offer a weekday 30-minute cycle from September 2009. Initially, a traffic between Ermesinde and Leça do Balio was offered, from 2010 this should be extended to Leixões, where a new train station must first be built. The CP also pushed for integration into the Andante transport association . The new suburban railway line, also called Linha de Leixões , ran on weekdays between Leça do Balio and Ermesinde and, like the lines in the greater Porto area, was operated by the CP subsidiary CP Urbanos do Porto .

On February 1, 2011, passenger traffic on the Linha de Leixões was discontinued.

Web links

• Photo gallery of the Linha de Leixões train stations
• Photo gallery of the Linha de Leixões

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carla Sofia Luz: Linha volta a ter passageiros em Setembro , [the route will be used again by passenger trains from September], Jornal de Notícias , 23 May 2009