The Sintra tramway is a seasonal narrow gauge tourist tram line in Portugal. It links the town of Sintra with Praia das Maçãs [pt], passing through Colares...
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Trams in Portugal have generally been traditional electric cars in large cities such as Lisbon, Porto and Sintra. Portuguese tram routes are typically...
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current tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems as part of their regular public transit systems. In other words...
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Trolley pole (category Tram technology)
streetcar lines, very few tram/streetcar systems worldwide continue to use trolley poles on vehicles used in normal service. Trams or light rail cars equipped...
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systems in Europe List of tram and light rail transit systems List of metro systems "Eléctrico de Sintra official page". www.cm-sintra.pt (in Portuguese)...
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transportation. Many early trams were horse-drawn, but electric trams followed. By the mid-1910s, the urban population were fully accustomed to trams as a fashionable...
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Heritage streetcar (redirect from Heritage Trams)
2012 double decker tram and single decker tram. Trams in Johannesburg were double-decker trams: one of the last trams that were in use in Johannesburg, South...
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The following is a list of tram/streetcar (including heritage trams/heritage streetcars), or light rail systems with their track length, track gauge, electrification...
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Linha de Sintra is a railway line that connects the stations of Rossio and Sintra, Portugal. and is operated by Comboios de Portugal. The railway, one...
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Rua Augusta (São Paulo) (category Streets in São Paulo)
very steep, to install donkey-pulled trams, in 1890. In 1891, with the inauguration of electric lights, the trams were powered by electricity. Between...
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Germany in their colonies. In Europe, large metre-gauge networks remain in use in Switzerland, Spain and many European towns with urban trams, but most...
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Lisbon (redirect from Transport in Lisbon)
Pages - Lisbon (Portugal) Trams". Archived from the original on 15 May 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2011. Details of Lisbon's trams, from Luso Pages Pincha...
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J. G. Brill Company (category Tram manufacturers)
to derive the design. Frankfort and Cincinnati Model 55 Rail Car List of tram builders Young, Andrew D. (1997). Veteran & Vintage Transit, p. 101. St....
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Xochimilco Light Rail (category Light rail in Mexico)
the Concarril cars, this work being undertaken by local firm Sintra S.A. The three "Sintra" cars, as they were known, the fleet's last to use PCC-type...
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Portugal (redirect from Biodiversity in Portugal)
Found in 1364 by Italian mariners under the service of Prince Henry The Navigator, it was first noted by Portuguese navigator Diogo Gomes de Sintra in 1438...
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Lisbon Metro (category Transport in Lisbon)
July 2012. "Ligação do metro de Lisboa à Linha de Sintra é inaugurada na quarta". Notícias ao Minuto (in Portuguese). 11 April 2016. Neves, Sofia (14 June...
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Vila Nova de Gaia (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)
it the most populous municipality in Norte Region, and the third most populous in the country, after Lisbon and Sintra. Gaia along with Porto and 16 other...
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Alfa Pendular (category High-speed rail in Portugal)
among others at speeds of up to 220 km/h (135 mph). The trains were assembled in Portugal by ADtranz at the former Sorefame works at Amadora, based on contracting...
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Museu De Arte Moderna Museu do Ar Ferreira de Castro Museum NewsMuseum Sintra Natural History Museum Casa Museu Afonso Lopes Vieira Glass Museum of Marinha...
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the former British settlement of Penang, now part of Malaysia. Most streets in the city were built and named during the colonial era, and the historic English...
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E.P.E. (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-07-18. "Cronologia - Metropolitano de Lisboa, E.P.E." Metropolitano de Lisboa, E.P.E. (in European Portuguese)...
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Comboios de Portugal (category Companies based in Lisbon)
station (train/ferry/metro/tram/bus) Oriente - for trains to the north and to the Algarve Rossio - for local trains to Sintra Santa Apolónia - terminus...
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Downhill mountain biking (category Sports originating in the United States)
of the WorldCup racers to the country. Places like Lousã, Tarouca, and Sintra offer a large mixture of single tracks and Downhill circuits.[citation needed]...
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Praça do Comércio (category Squares in Lisbon)
having two main directions of travel, west and south. The northern side tram leads to the district of Belem and the southern port is a ferry that goes...
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Santa Justa Lift (category Buildings and structures in Lisbon)
transferring the Elevator definitively into the city's historical tram network. In July 2002, the Santa Justa Elevator celebrated its first centenary;...
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(2020). "The Water Supply and Sewage System in Sixteenth Century Lisbon: Drawing the Renaissance City". In Rodrigues, Ana Duarte; Marín, Carmen Toribio...
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Sobral de Monte Agraço, Greater Lisbon District Cinema Carlos Alberto, Sintra, Greater Lisbon District Cinema da Ponta do Sol, Ponta do Sol, Madeira,...
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so-called Carros Americanos (horse-drawn trams) in 1870; in 1901 it was affected by the construction of the tram line that operated between Terreiro do...
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interchanges on the belt line within Lisbon as well as on the Sintra line, where Sintra line trains connect with Azambuja line trains. Kirkby railway...
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Rossio railway station, Lisbon Silves railway station, Silves Sintra railway station, Sintra, Lisbon Tua railway station, Carrazeda de Ansiães Tunes railway...
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