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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.
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.
↘ Porto: ♦ Porto: Trams in Porto: Mule 19 Mar 1872 1903 Steam 1878 9 Nov 1914 Electric 12 Sep 1895 First electric tramway on Iberian Peninsula. Tram system reached its maximum in 1949, but the tramway continually shrank through the 1990s; remaining system operated as a heritage tramway. ♦ Metro do Porto: Porto Metro: Electric 7 Dec 2002 ...
Tramways are usually embedded in the older parts of Portuguese cities. They are intended primarily for carrying passengers, and as a means of rapid transportation, since the trams usually have priority over the remaining traffic. Trams came to Portugal in the following sequence: Porto (1895), Lisbon (1901), Sintra (1904), Coimbra (1911) and ...
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The Porto Metro (Portuguese: Metro do Porto) is a light rail network in Porto, Portugal and a key part of the city's public transport system. [3] Having a semi-metro alignment, it runs underground in central Porto and above ground into the city's suburbs while using low-floor tram vehicles.
A fifth line was inaugurated in September 2009, Leixões line, connecting Porto to Leixões. [7] This line closed again in 2011. In 2018, a study was launched into a new 36.5 km rail line branching from Valongo on the Linha de Caide to Felgueiras, with an expectedly cost of €300 million.
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