Classic route
Linha de Guimarães
Porto → Guimarães · Portugal
- Distance
- 55 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 16 min
- Average speed
- 43 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- CP
- Train
- CP UTE 3400
- Countries
- Portugal
- In service since
- 1884
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Metre gauge until 2004, when it was rebuilt to Iberian gauge and wired: out of Porto through Ermesinde and up the Ave valley by Trofa and Santo Tirso to Guimarães, where Portugal was founded.
How this line was checked
- Line traced onto the OpenStreetMap rail graph
- Facts cross-checked against Wikipedia
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