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Portugal Ferroviário, the online portal for Portuguese railway enthusiasts, has been recently overhauled with a complete redesign of its rolling stock inventory. Access to the rolling stock inventory is now done through the CCO tab, and now includes sections for the infrastructure, museums...

The Portuguese N Club Model Trains developed a standard of magnetic couplers for N scale trains, that can be electrified to power lights along a consist. The details (in portuguese) and the STL models for resin 3D printing are available here. The models currently available are compatible with...

As a follow-up to this thread, the Portuguese government pushed forward with the intention of distributing the national railway services to private service providers. On the 22nd of January, 2026, the Council of Ministers received the 1st phase of the research on liberalisation of railway...

As some of you may already know, Portugal (and Spain) are going through an atypical season of rain that has caused damage and disruption throughout the country. The soil has become saturated with water and areas affected by wildfires during the summer are suffering from constant landslides...

I'm doing a small market research to submit to KATO, Arnold, Fleischmann and PIKO.

For anyone with plans to visit Portugal, the Douro Line closed on November 3 between Marco de Canaveses and Peso da Régua for track improvement and station modernisation works. There is a rail replacement bus between *Caíde* and Peso da Régua, to connect to the stretch between Peso da Régua and...

This week, the new Portuguese Government is discussing its brand-new executive plan in parliament, with more details regarding how railways will be developed over the next four years. Namely, the continued interest in promoting competition in the operation of passenger railway services. This...

Summarizing the news over the past couple of weeks, the High-Speed Line between Lisbon and Porto has been under fire. LusoLAV, the consortium that won the contract to make the building project for the 1a stretch between Porto and Oiã, has been making significant changes from the government's...

I know this is a bit of a touchy subject to talk about on a forum, but I wanted to check other people's views on how defence expenditure should be allocated. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/natos-rutte-calls-higher-defence-spending-above-2gdp-2025-01-27/ Today I read the news of the...

Hello! I'm planning a journey to Paris in July, as it's been usual post-CoViD. Does anyone here know how early in advance can FIP reservations be made? I booked a flight from Barcelona to Lisbon on a Monday afternoon and I want to make sure I can reserve a spot on the Paris to Barcelona TGV...

Since the departure of the Urbano Nr. 16800 at 00:20 on January 20, 2025, the Coimbra station, located right in the center of the city, closed permanently. In its wake, people visited and gathered around the station, as each bid their own kind of farewell to the station that served 1.5 million...

The Portuguese government will announce today the newly revised Portuguese National Railway Pass. The event will be held at the Portuguese National Railway Museum at Entroncamento. The pass will be renamed to "Green Railway Pass" and its monthly subscription will be changed from the current...

Has anyone ever been through border checks on international railway connections to and from Germany? The federal government announced the reintroduction of land border checks in all its neighboring countries starting on September 16. This essentially means the temporary suspension of the...

I'm planning a work trip for Innotrans 2024, but unlike in 2022, I'm planning to do the whole journey by train to and from Berlin. Right now I have the following timetable figured out for the Valongo to Berlin journey: Key: [1] - Daily [2] - Only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays [3] - Only...

On January 12, 2024, Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa launched the public tender for the first section of the first phase of the Lisbon to Porto highspeed railway line, between Porto and Oiã. The project includes the reformulation of the Porto-Campanhã railway station, the construction...

I'm currently working on another railway project, and the engineers have been discussing whether or not it's worth keeping windows on train bathrooms. Not only do we have stock in line for modernization that may or may not have the bathroom windows removed/reinstated, but we are also in the...

As some of you may already know, Portugal launched their version of the Deutschland-Ticket this month. For 49€ this pass allows unlimited travel on Regional services in all the country, including the connection to Badajoz (ES). Despite its name, there are severe limitations that discourage...

The 2023 season of the Douro Historic Train will only begin on July 8, one month later than usual. The departure from Régua has been postponed due to the month-long strike by ticket inspectors. To compensate, CP - Comboios de Portugal plans to offer an extended service for 2023, operating the...

The Douro Line will be closed between November 2024 and March 2025 for engineering work. The closure will be between the Marco de Canaveses and Ermida railway stations. The reason is the engineering work necessary to lower the floor of the tunnels to allow for the electrification of the railway...

It's been a while since the term BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) was introduced in Portugal. [Wait, now Grammarly forces me to use Passive Voice in this sentence!?) So far, two old railway projects (or old railway infrastructure, as it once existed) have been converted to BRT systems. One in Coimbra...