Lisbon Sul e Sueste
Estação Ferroviária do Sul e Sueste (too German about "South and Southeast Station"), and Terminal Fluvial do Terreiro do Paço ( "ferry terminal at Palace Square") is a ship terminal in the center of the Portuguese capital Lisbon , near the Praça do Comércio , located on Avenida Infante D. Henrique in the municipality of Santa Maria Maior . Although only ships stopped and stopped at the terminal, it was an integral part of the Portuguese rail network until the railway connection over the Tagus River ( Ponte 25 de Abril ) was built in 1999. The underground station Terreiro do Paço is located below the train station .
history
Since the introduction of regular ferry services with steamers across the Tagus in the 1860s, there has been a landing stage for ships near the Praça do Comércio, popularly known as Terreiro do Paço ( Palace Square ). The ferry traffic was necessary at the latest since the opening of the Linha do Alentejo between Barreiro and Bombel in 1857, which was later extended to Setúbal , Évora and further into the Algarve . However, the landing stage itself consisted of only a few wooden barracks which, according to popular opinion, did not correspond to the representative surroundings or, to put it in the words of the intellectual Raul Proença , "put the capital to shame".
For this reason, the royal railway company - under whose direction the ferry service was also running - commissioned the architect José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo to design a new reception building for the pier. The same opened in 1932. Continelli designed a building with very clear shapes and structures in the style of the 1930s and thus resisted the historicist temptation that was generally close due to its proximity to Praça do Comércio or Baixa Pombalina . The building, which by the way is one of the first in the Estado Novo , has three large semicircular entrance portals facing Avenida Infante D. Henrique , the mighty clock above the entrance immediately evokes the association with a “real” train station. Inside, the passenger is greeted by a very large hall with a high ceiling, supported by strong pillars clad in marble.
Until 1993, the ships that made the connection between the north and south banks of the Tagus were under the direct control of the then Caminhos-de-ferro Portugueses . Thereupon the CP outsourced the ferry operation to the subsidiary Soflusa . Until 1998, the ships carried the bulk of the traffic between the north and south banks. In 1999 the railway connection over the Ponte 25 de Abril ( Linha do Sul ) was inaugurated, and since then all long-distance, regional and local trains have been running south over the bridge. The shipping connection lost massively in importance, as did the Barreiro station and the Linha do Alentejo to Pinhal Novo .
In 2001 the competing ferry company Transtejo bought the Soflusa. Since then, the "ship station" has no longer had any connection under railway law with the Portuguese rail network. Nevertheless, a Comboios de Portugal sales point has remained in the station to this day .
In 2007, after many delays, the extension of the Linha Azul of the Lisbon Metro between the inner-city metro station Baixa-Chiado and the long-distance station Santa Apolónia went into operation. The underground station Terreiro do Paço was built below the ship terminal . Due to the extensive construction work on the metro station, shipping traffic was temporarily impaired, so that certain connections to the neighboring terminal Cais do Sodré were relocated. After the underground station was built, construction work began on a new ship terminal - analogous to the Cais do Sodré ship terminal .
See also
- Évora (ship, 1931) , company ferry on the Tagus from 1931 to 1975
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Railway station architecture tour through Lisbon , cp.pt (Portuguese)
Web links
Coordinates: 38 ° 42 '24 " N , 9 ° 8' 2.6" W.