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Route 18's 4 km section along Avenida Boavista was later closed, but tram service was gradually re-introduced in the 2000s on other sections, in the form of additional heritage-tram services, lines 1 and 22, as well as the former Line T (the Porto Tram City Tour, which has since been discontinued).
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.
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.
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. The lines are completely electrified and the service is efficient, serving over 24 million passengers in 2019.
Aeroporto is a light rail station on the Porto Metro system in the municipality of Maia, Portugal. It was built to serve Porto Airport, and is situated immediately outside the main terminal of that airport. The station is the terminus of line E of the Metro, which provides a direct connection to the centre of the city of Porto. [1] [2]
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.
This is a route-map template for Line D (Porto Metro), a light rapid transit route in Portugal.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
STCP also operates these routes as well as a tram museum. The first line of the area's modern-tram, or light rail system, named Metro do Porto, opened for revenue service in January 2003 [82] (after a brief period of free, introductory service in December 2002).