Linha do Minho

Porto-Valença
Route length:	134.2 km
Gauge :	1668 mm ( Iberian track )
Legend 0.0 Porto Sao Bento as Ramal do Porto referred Linha do Norte 2.6 Porto Campanhã IP1 motorway 5.1 Contumil Linha de Leixoes 7.4 Rio Tinto IP4 / A4 (motorway) 9.1 Águas Santas / Palmilheira Linha de Leixoes 11.0 Ermesinde 11.0 Linha do Douro Leça 12.3 Travagem 14.4 Leandro 15.7 São Frutuoso 18.0 São Romão IP1 / A3 (motorway) 21.0 Portela 23.4 Senhora das Dores Linha de Guimarães 25.5 Trofa Ave 28.1 Lousado Linha de Guimarães 31.6 Esmeriz IC5 / A7 (motorway) 32.8 Barrimau 34.7 Vila Nova de Famalicao Linha da Póvoa EN206 37.5 Mouquim 39.4 Louro 41.6 Nine Ramal de Braga 45.7 Carreira 48.7 Midões EN103 IC14 / A11 (motorway) Rio Cávado EN204 52.9 Barcelos 56.6 Silva 59.8 Carapeços 62.6 Tamel 67.6 Durrães Neiva 70.8 Barroselas 72.4 Senhora das Neves 74.0 Alvarães EN308 IC1 / A28 (motorway) Celulose de Viana 79.4 Darque 80.9 Areia-Darque Ramal do Porto de Viana (under construction) Lima 84.3 Viana do Castelo Viana-Doca EN13 84.3 Areosa 91.7 Carreço 94.5 Afife EN13 Gelfa 99.1 Âncora-Praia Âncora 103.4 Moledo do Minho EN13 106.4 Senhora da Agonia 107.3 Caminha Coura EN13 110.4 Seixas Lanhelas 113.1 Esqueiro 116.0 Gondarém 118.2 Vila Nova de Cerveira Breia 124.7 Carvalha 128.1 Sao Pedro da Torre IP1 / A3 (motorway) 134.2 Valença Border branch (also Ramal Internacional ) to Tui in Spain Gantei Verdoejo Friesta Lapela Senhora da Cabeça Monção

The Linha do Minho , in German main line of the Minho , is a Portuguese railway line between the two cities of Porto and Valença .

Route

The railway line has a transition to Galicia ( Spain ) and is therefore an important link between the two Iberian countries for passenger and freight traffic. With the "Celta" there is an international connection from Porto to Vigo with two pairs of trains and a travel time of approx. 2 hours and 15 minutes. The route is operated by Comboios de Portugal (CP).

history

The Linha do Minho opened in 1875. In the past there was a section of the Linha do Minho between Valença and Monção , but this section was discontinued in the 1980s and is now used as a cycle path.

In the course of the expansion of the Ramal de Braga, which branches off from the Linha do Minho at Nine station, the Porto – Nine section was expanded and electrified in the 1990s. The rest of the Nine – Valença section remained unelectrified and mostly single-track. Although promised several times by various governments, work on electrifying the rest of the route did not begin until 2018. On July 15, 2019, the electrified section Nine – Viana do Castelo was inaugurated. The construction work, under the supervision of the infrastructure manager Infraestruturas de Portugal , cost 16.5 million euros.

The VIana do Castelo – Valença section is to be electrified by 2020.

gallery

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  Rio Tinto train station, a suburb of Porto

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  Viana do Castelo train station

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  Station of Nine

Web links

Commons : Linha do Minho  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Railway cycling routes in Portugal - Ecopistas
• Photo gallery of the Linha do Minho train stations
• Linha do Minho photo gallery

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carlos Cipriano: Governo visita obras atrasadas na linha do Minho. In: Público. Retrieved July 26, 2019 (Portuguese). 
2. ↑ Concluída a eletrificação da Linha do Minho entre Nine e Viana do Castelo. Retrieved July 26, 2019 .