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Linha de Évora is a
railway line Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road ...
in
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 ...
, which connects Casa Branca and
Évora Évora ( , ), officially the Very Noble and Ever Loyal City of Évora (), is a city and a municipalities of Portugal, municipality in Portugal. It has 53,591 inhabitants (2021), in an area of . It is the historic capital of the Alentejo reg ...
. As of early 2024, there is an ongoing project of continuing the line to
Elvas Elvas (), officially the City of Elvas (), is a Portuguese municipality, former episcopal city and frontier fortress of easternmost central Portugal, located in the district of Portalegre in Alentejo. It is situated about east of Lisbon, and ab ...
, from where trains could pass into Spain; some rumours even make this extension the first bit of
high speed rail High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilising trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialised rolling stock and dedicated tracks. While there is no single def ...
in Portugal.


See also

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

* {{Railway lines in Portugal Lists of railway lines by country, Portugal Portuguese railway-related lists, Lines Railway lines in Portugal, * ...
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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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* Railway lines in Portugal Iberian-gauge railways {{Europe-rail-transport-stub