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Salamanca was a railroad station for the Erie Railroad in Salamanca, New York, United States. The station was located at 137 Main Street in Salamanca, across the track from the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway depot.
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The station is located at kilometre point 58.1 of the Iberian gauge railway line Medina del Campo-Vilar Formoso, [5] at an altitude of 776 metres above sea level. The kilometre corresponds to the historic route of the Salamanca-Vilar Formoso railway. It was also the terminus of the Barca d'Alva–La Fuente de San Esteban line, now closed. [6]
The Barca d'Alva–La Fuente de San Esteban railway is a closed Iberian gauge line which connected the Barca d'Alva railway station on the Douro line in northeastern Portugal to the Spanish railway network.
Salamanca was the first commercially successful steam locomotive, built in 1812 by Matthew Murray of Holbeck, for the edge-railed Middleton Railway between Middleton and Leeds, England [1] and it predated Stephenson's Rocket by 17 years. [2] It was the first to have two cylinders.
The Douro line (Portuguese: Linha do Douro) is a 99-mile (160 km) railway line in northern Portugal that runs from Ermesinde to the eastern terminus at Pocinho. The line runs close to the Douro River for much of its route, offering scenic views of the river and valley.
The station is located on the Madrid–Asturias high-speed rail line between Madrid-Chamartín and Valladolid. It is served by through high-speed passenger services operated by Renfe and Ouigo to multiple destinations in Spain, including Santiago de Compostela , San Sebastián , Salamanca and Alicante . [ 2 ]
Pocinho station was one of the stations served by the Porto–Medina train, which ran from the beginning of the 20th century until 1914, connecting the city of Porto to Salamanca and Medina del Campo. [19] The train service resumed in 1919, but was suspended indefinitively shortly afterwards. [20] Freight warehouse at Pocinho station