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Sintra Line

railway line in Portugal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ915748 ↗
Source-derived summary

Linha de Sintra is a railway line that connects the stations of Rossio and Sintra, Portugal. and is operated by Comboios de Portugal.

History

The railway, one of the first to be planned in Portugal, was opened on 2 April 1887. The southern terminus was changed from Alcântara-Terra to Rossio, after the station was inaugurated in June 1891. The duplication works were completed on 20 January 1949, and during the 1950s, the line was electrified. New rolling stock was introduced in the 1990s. Quadruple-tracking between Benfica and Amadora had been completed by September 1999.

See also

List of railway lines in Portugal

History of rail transport in Portugal

References

Sources

"2019 Network Statement" (PDF). 7 December 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2019.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1887, 1891, 1949, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sintra, Line and railway can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as railway line in Portugal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q915748. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1887, 1891, 1949 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sintra Line” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.