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The tram system of Porto in Portugal is operated by the Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto (STCP) and currently has three regular tram routes with 30-minute headways. All are heritage tram routes, as they use vintage tramcars exclusively, and should not be confused with the modern Porto Metro light rail system.
Trams de Porto. The tramway network in the city of Porto is operated by Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto (STCP). There are three different Porto tram routes: Line 1: Passeio Alegre//Infante; Line 18: Massarelos// Carmo; Line 22: Circular Carmo//Batalha; The STCP tram fleet is housed at the Massarelos depot next to the STCP Tram Museum.
STCP's name originally was Serviço de Transportes Colectivos do Porto.It was created in 1946, when the municipality took over the Companhia Carris de Ferro do Porto (CCFP) (the Porto Tramways Company), which had been in operation since 1873 and, apart from a brief period in 1907–08, had provided all public transport service in Porto since 1893.
Map of the Porto Metro network (.pdf file) Metro do Porto news archive; Photos of Metro do Porto's station architecture; Flickr's Metro do Porto group; Expansion - 2nd and 3rd phases (Portuguese) Porto database / photo gallery and Porto tram list at Urban Electric Transit – in various languages, including English.
Map of the Porto network with the map of the Porto Metro. The CP Urban Services in the greater Porto area consists of 4 main lines, linking Porto Terminus São Bento Station (Estação de São Bento) in Porto Downtown with the cities of Braga, Guimarães, Aveiro and Penafiel.
Infraestruturas de Portugal is the rail network administrating company, taking over control from REFER on 1 June 2015. The length of Portugal's railway system is as follows: [3] Total: 2,786 km (1,731 mi) 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 + 21 ⁄ 32 in) Iberian gauge: 2,603 km (1,617 mi), of which 1,351 km or 839 mi are electrified
In Portugal, Lisbon tram services have been supplied by the Companhia de Carris de Ferro de Lisboa , for over a century. In Porto, a tram network, of three lines, began construction on 12 September 1895, the first in the Iberian Peninsula. All major cities and towns have their own local urban transport network, as well as taxi services.
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