Ramal de Cabo Frio
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The Ramal de Cabo Frio railway line was a historic railway line in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro in southeastern Brazil. It connected the place Neves on the Linha do Litoral with the city of Cabo Frio on the Atlantic coast with a total length of 158.2 km.
history
The Ramal de Cabo Frio was opened by the historic Estrada de Ferro Maricá railway company in 1888. It connected the Alcântara and Rio do Ouro train stations. In 1889 the route had been continued to Itapeba and in 1894 to Maricá . In 1901 the railway line to Manuel Ribeiro was completed and thanks to the intervention of Nilo Peçanha, then President of the Province of Rio de Janeiro (and later the Republic), the railway line was transferred to the Estrada de Ferro Leopoldina and to Neves station on the Linha do Litoral continued. In 1912 this line was sold to the French company Com. Generale aux Chemins de Fer sold. The last section to the terminus at Cabo Frio was not completed until 1936, financed by the federal government. The railway line went back to EF Marica after it was sold to Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil in 1943 , and back to the Leopoldina at the end of the 1950s. In the 1960s, there were direct trains from Niterói (General Dutra station) via Neves to Cabo Frio. This passenger traffic was restricted in 1965 to suburban trains that only went as far as Virajaba. The siding was closed on January 31, 1966.