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Linha do Sul is a Portuguese
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which connects Campolide A, in
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, and
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, in the
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. The first section, from
Pinhal Novo Pinhal Novo () is a town in Portugal situated in the Setúbal Peninsula halfway between Lisbon and Setúbal. It is a civil parish of the Palmela Municipality. The population in 2011 was 25,000,Setúbal Setúbal ( , , ; ), officially the City of Setúbal (), is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the entire municipality in 2014 was 118,166, occupying an area of . The city itself had 89,303 inhabitants in 2001. It lies withi ...
, was opened in 1861. The route to Funcheira opened on 25 May 1920. In 2003 it was linked to Lisbon, crossing the
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on the
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. The section between Pinhal Novo and Funcheira was classified as Linha do Sado until 1992, while the section from Barreiro to
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via
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and Beja was classified as Linha do Sul.


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List of railway lines in Portugal This is a list of railway lines in Portugal. List Sources

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List of Portuguese locomotives and railcars This list provides an overview of the locomotives and railcars of the Portuguese railways, that is, the traction stock of earlier private railways, the state-owned ''Comboios de Portugal'' (CP) and its predecessor, the municipal ''Metro de Mirandel ...
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History of rail transport in Portugal The history of rail transport in Portugal dates from 28 October 1856, when Portugal's first railway line was opened between Lisbon and Carregado: the ''Companhia dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses''. The network was gradually expanded both sout ...


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Sul Iberian-gauge railways Railway lines opened in 1861 Long stubs with short prose {{Europe-rail-transport-stub