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A second company, the Companhia Carris de Ferro do Porto (CCFP) (the Porto Tramways Company), was established in 1873, and it opened a line from Praça Carlos Alberto via Boavista to Foz (Cadouços) in 1874. More lines were added through the 1870s until the 1890s.
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.
Ex-Melbourne trolley in the South Main St Historic District. The trolleys used are almost all restored, vintage streetcars. [12] The original three cars in operation on opening day were all formerly used in Porto, Portugal, and are Car 187, circa 1927; Car 194, circa 1935; and Car 204, circa 1940. [12]
The Porto Tram Museum (Museu do Carro Eléctrico) is a museum operated by the Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto. It was inaugurated in 1992 and is installed in a former thermoelectric power station next to the River Douro in Massarelos, Porto, Portugal. [1] It exhibits material related to the history of trams in Porto. The collection ...
The history of trams, streetcars, or trolleys began in the early nineteenth century. It can be divided up into several discrete periods defined by the principal means of motive power used. [ 2 ] Eventually the so-called US "street railways" were deemed advantageous auxiliaries of the new elevated and/or tunneled metropolitan steam railways.
A former Porto trolley in Memphis, Tennessee, United States Heritage streetcars or heritage trams are a part of the efforts to preserve rail transit heritage. In addition to preserving street-running rail vehicles, heritage streetcar operations can include upkeep of historic rail infrastructure.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Porto, Portugal ... 2000 - Cm-porto.pt website online (approximate date). [19] 21st century. 2001
An articulated trolleybus built by the same manufacturer at around the same time was also borrowed from the operator of the former Porto system, from 2001 to 2009 (No. 70). 0 1 conventional Solaris Trollino, the system's first and only low-floor trolleybus, delivered in 2009 (No. 75).