Border Crossings: Portugal - Spain: Difference between revisions
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==(Entroncamento -) Elvas CP - Badajoz RENFE== | ==(Entroncamento -) Elvas CP - Badajoz RENFE== | ||
[D] CP works to Badajoz. The daily passenger service was withdrawn on 5 June 2004, and reinstated on 13 December 2009. | [D] CP works to Badajoz. The daily passenger service was withdrawn on 5 June 2004, and reinstated on 13 December 2009. It has been announced that Torre das Vargens - Elvas - Badajoz RENFE will close from 1 January 2012. | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Revision as of 20:14, 16 December 2011
All rail routes between this pair of countries are 1668mm gauge.
(Porto -) Valença do Minho CP - Tui RENFE (- Vigo)
[D] Two passenger train pairs operate between Porto and Vigo. These are the only passenger trains that serve Tui.
(Porto - Pocinho -) Barca de Alva CP - Fregeneda RENFE (- Salamanca)
Line closed. In August 2009 the Portuguese Secretary of State for Transport announced that Pocinho to Barca de Alva is to be reopened for tourist traffic, especially to the Coa Valley Archaeological Park, a World Heritage Site. RENFE announced plans some years ago to reopen their section for cross border freight but nothing has happened since.
(Pampilhosa -) Vilar Formoso CP - Fuentes de Oñoro RENFE (- Salamanca)
[ED] RENFE operates to Vilar Formoso.
(Entroncamento -) Marvāo CP - Valencia do Alcántara RENFE
[D] On the only passenger train of the day, the Madrid - Lisboa overnight service, the CP diesel locomotive works through to Valencia do Alcántara.
(Entroncamento -) Elvas CP - Badajoz RENFE
[D] CP works to Badajoz. The daily passenger service was withdrawn on 5 June 2004, and reinstated on 13 December 2009. It has been announced that Torre das Vargens - Elvas - Badajoz RENFE will close from 1 January 2012.
