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Póvoa De Santa Iria Train Collision
The Póvoa de Santa Iria train collision was a rail transport accident that occurred in the train station of Póvoa de Santa Iria, Portugal, on 5 May 1986. It caused the death of 17 people and left 83 others injured. It is considered one of the worst rail accidents that ever happened in Portugal. The accident involved a speeding express train and a local train stopped at the train station in Póvoa de Santa Iria. Due to human error, the express train entered the station inadvertently at high speed and collided with the rear of the local train, crumpling two carriages of the local train. The train station also suffered damage. Background The Póvoa train station serves the city of Póvoa de Santa Iria, a suburb in the north of Lisbon, and is part of the North Line (''Linha do Norte''), a railway line which connects Lisbon to Porto. The railway is used by express and local train services, although the Póvoa station is a stop for local trains only. Collision On 5 May 1986, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western European Summer Time
Western European Summer Time (WEST, UTC+01:00) is a summer daylight saving time scheme, 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in: * the Canary Islands * Portugal (including Madeira but not the Azores) * the Faroe Islands The following countries also use the same time zone for their daylight saving time but use a different title: *United Kingdom, which uses British Summer Time (BST) *Ireland, which uses Irish Standard Time (IST) ( (ACÉ)). Also sometimes erroneously referred to as "Irish Summer Time" (). The scheme runs from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October each year. At both the start and end of the schemes, clock changes take place at 01:00 UTC+00:00. During the winter, Western European Time (WET, GMT+0 or UTC+00:00) is used. The start and end dates of the scheme are asymmetrical in terms of daylight hours: the vernal time of year with a similar amount of daylight to late October is mid-February, well before th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Covilhã
Covilhã (), officially Covilhã City (), is a city and a concelho, municipality in the Centro, Portugal, Centro region, Portugal. The city proper had 33,691 inhabitants in 2021. The municipality population in 2021 was 46,455 in an area of . It is located in the Beiras e Serra da Estrela subregion and Beiras and Serra da Estrela Intermunicipal Community. The municipal holiday is October 20. Sometimes referred to as ''town of wool and snow'', Covilhã is one of the main urban centres of the historical Beira Interior region. The proximity of the mountains offers dramatic scenery and a great environment for those fond of hiking, camping, mountain climbing and skiing. With an industrial tradition historically focused on textile industry supplied by an abundance of wool produced in the area since antiquity, but with a more diversified industry in contemporaneity, Covilhã, which was once known as the "History of Manchester#Industrial Revolution, Portuguese Manchester", is also a College t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Train Collisions In Portugal
A train (from Old French , from Latin">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and Passenger train, transport people or Rail freight transport, freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (often known simply as "engines"), though some are self-propelled, such as multiple units or railcars. Passengers and cargo are carried in railroad cars, also known as wagons or carriages. Trains are designed to a certain gauge, or distance between rails. Most trains operate on steel tracks with steel wheels, the low friction of which makes them more efficient than other forms of transport. Many countries use rail transport. Trains have their roots in wagonways, which used railway tracks and were powered by horses or pulled by cables. Following the invention of the steam locomotive i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 In Portugal Events in the year 1986 in Portugal. Incumbents *President: António Ramalho Eanes (until 9 March), Mário Soares (since 9 March) *Prime Minister: Aníbal Cavaco Silva Events * 1 January - Portugal becomes a member state of the European Union. * 26 January - First round of the Presidential election. * 16 February - Second round of the Presidential election. Arts and entertainment Portugal participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 with Dora and the song "Não sejas mau para mim". Sports In association football, for the first-tier league seasons, see 1985–86 Primeira Divisão and 1986–87 Primeira Divisão. References {{DEFAULTSORT:1986 In Portugal Portugal Years of the 20th century in Portugal Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. Featuring Cabo da Roca, the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it share ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rail Accidents (1980–89)
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of ''The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mário Soares
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares (; 7 December 1924 – 7 January 2017) was a Portugal, Portuguese politician, who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the List of Presidents of Portugal, 17th president of Portugal from 1986 to 1996. He was the first secretary-general of the Socialist Party (Portugal), Socialist Party, from its foundation in 1973 to 1986. A major political figure in Portugal, he is considered the father of Portuguese democracy. Family Soares was the son of João Lopes Soares (Leiria, Arrabal, 17 November 1879 – Lisbon, Campo Grande, 31 July 1970), founder of the Colégio Moderno in Lisbon, Minister (government), government minister and then anti-fascist republican activist who had been a Priest#Roman Catholic and Orthodox, priest before impregnating and marrying Elisa Nobre Baptista (Santarém, Portugal, Santarém, Pernes, 8 September 1887 – Lisbon, Campo Grande, 28 February 1955), Mário Soare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Portugal
The president of Portugal, officially the president of the Portuguese Republic (, ), is the head of state and highest office of Portugal. The powers, functions and duties of prior presidential offices, and their relation with the prime minister and cabinets have over time differed with the various Portuguese constitutions. Currently, in the Third Republic, a semi-presidential system, the president holds no direct executive power, unlike his counterparts in the United States and France. However, even though he is in general a ceremonial figure, he holds some powers less-commonly found in parliamentary systems: one of his most significant responsibilities is the promulgation of all laws enacted by the Assembly of the Republic (parliament) or the Government (an act without which such laws have no legal validity), with an alternative option to veto them (although this veto can be overcome in the case of laws approved by Parliament) or send them to the Constitutional Court for a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospital De Santa Maria
Hospital de Santa Maria (; "Saint Mary's Hospital") is a public Central Hospital serving the Greater Lisbon area as part of the Northern Lisbon University Hospital Centre (CHULN), a State-owned enterprise. Santa Maria is the largest hospital in Portugal. History Saint Mary's Hospital is located in the ''Cidade Universitária'', the main campus of the University of Lisbon The University of Lisbon (ULisboa; ) is a public university, public research university in Lisbon, and Portugal's largest university. It was founded in 1911, but the university's present structure dates to the 2013 merger of the former Universit ... and ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, within the civil parish of Alvalade. Designed by German architect Hermann Distel, it was built from 1940 to 1953, meant as a new University Hospital housing the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. References External links Official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Santa Maria, Hospital 1953 establishments in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospital De São José
Hospital de São José (; "Saint Joseph's Hospital") is a public Healthcare in Portugal#Hospitals, Central Hospital serving the Grande Lisboa, Greater Lisbon area as part of the Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central, Central Lisbon University Hospital Centre (CHULC), a state-owned enterprise. Saint Joseph's has operated as a hospital since 1775, following the destruction of its institutional predecessor as the main public hospital in the city of Lisbon, the 15th-century Hospital Real de Todos os Santos, All Saints' Royal Hospital, in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. History The building that today houses São José Hospital was ordered built starting in 1579, under the patronage of Henry, King of Portugal, Cardinal Henry of Portugal, to house the College of Saint Anthony the Great (''Colégio de Santo Antão''), an important Society of Jesus, Jesuit-run educational institution that was up until then located in the :pt:Mouraria, Mouraria quarter. The college was transferred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carregado
Carregado () is a former civil parish, located in the municipality of Alenquer, in western Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Carregado e Cadafais. It has a population of 9,066 inhabitants and a total area of 15.52 km2. The town is a north-east exurb of Lisbon Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan .... The railway between Carregado and Lisbon was the first line to be built in Portugal; it opened in 1856. See also * History of rail transport in Portugal References Former parishes of Alenquer, Portugal {{Lisbon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regional Rail
Regional rail is a public transport, public rail transport service that operates between towns and cities. These trains operate with more stops than inter-city rail, and unlike commuter rail, operate beyond the limits of urban areas, connecting smaller cities and towns. In North America (e.g. the rail transportation in the United States, United States), "regional rail" is often used as a synonym for "commuter rail", often using "commuter rail" to refer to systems that primarily or only offer service during rush hour while using "regional rail" to refer to systems that offer all-day service. In rail transport in Europe, Europe, regional trains have their own train categories in Europe, category, often abbreviated to R (Regionalbahn, RB in rail transport in Germany, Germany) or L (for local train). Characteristics Regional rail provides services that link settlements to each other, unlike commuter rail which links locations within a singular urban area. Unlike inter-city servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Póvoa De Santa Iria
Póvoa de Santa Iria is a city and former ''freguesia'' in the municipality of Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal. Since 2013, it is part of the ''freguesia'' Póvoa de Santa Iria e Forte da Casa. Its population in 2011 was 29,348. History Prehistory and Roman period There is evidence of human settlement during the Upper Paleolithic in the land where present-day Póvoa de Santa Iria is located. Stone tools dating from this period have been found in some upper areas of the city. There is also evidence of Roman occupation in the area, particularly through isolated finds such as amphoras near the Tagus River. A significant Roman milestone, reused in later times, was discovered near the current EN115-5 road, about 400 meters southwest of the settlement. The area's proximity to Olisipo (currently Lisbon) and its strategic location along the Tagus River likely led to a substantial Roman presence, with the region possibly serving as a rural settlement focused on agriculture. Middle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
