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Faro station

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Operated by
  
Comboios de Portugal

Platform levels
  
1

Opened
  
1 July 1889

Platforms in use
  
6

Line(s)
  
Algarve line

Address
  
8000-394 Faro, Portugal

Level
  
1

Faro station

Location
  
Largo da Estação dos Caminhos de Ferro, Faro Portugal

Similar
  
Church of São Lourenço, Museu Municipal de Olhão, Barreta Island, Cathedral of Faro, Lagos

Railways in the algarve i faro station


Faro station (Portuguese: Estação de Faro) is the main railway station in the city of Faro, Portugal, operated by Comboios de Portugal. It opened on 1 July 1889.

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The line to the north-west is electrified, using overhead catenary, the line east, to the terminus at Vila Real de Santo António, is not.

In 1999, following the creation of a rail crossing over the River Tagus at Lisbon, the Alfa Pendular high speed electric tilting train service was introduced on the Braga-Oporto-Lisbon-Faro line, with through trains south of Lisbon starting in 2003.

Railways in the algarve xxviii a busy afternoon at faro station


References

Faro station Wikipedia