Ramal de Alfarelos is a railway branch in Portugal, which connects the
Western Line (at
Bifurcação de Lares) to the
Northern Line
The Northern line is a London Underground line that runs between North London and South London. It is printed in black on the Tube map. It carries more passengers per year than any other Underground linearound 340million in 2019making it the bu ...
(at
Alfarelos
Alfarelos is a Freguesia (Portugal), civil parish in the municipality of Soure, Portugal, Soure, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 1,439, in an area of 13.98 km².
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Freguesias of Soure, Portugal
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), offering a connection between
Figueira da Foz
Figueira da Foz (), officially Figueira da Foz City (), often called simply Figueira for short, is a city and a municipality in the Coimbra District, in Portugal. Practically at the midpoint of the Iberian Peninsula's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coa ...
and
Coimbra
Coimbra (, also , , or ), officially the City of Coimbra (), is a city and a concelho, municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2021 census was 140,796, in an area of .
The fourth-largest agglomerated urban area in Po ...
.
CP offers both urban and regional services on this branch, as part of the Coimbra urban trains (connecting Coimbra to Figueira da Foz through Alfarelos
) and of the Western Line.
See also
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List of railway lines in Portugal
This is a list of railway lines in Portugal.
List
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{{Railway lines in Portugal
Lists of railway lines by country, Portugal
Portuguese railway-related lists, Lines
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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
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