🇵🇹 Operator
Train routes operated by CP
12 routes · classic 11 · luxury 1
CP runs 12 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 1,752 km of railway across 2 countries. The longest is the Intercidades at 353 km; the fastest is the Alfa Pendular, running up to 220 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1863. 1 of its routes crosses an international border.
No Wikidata item for CP could be verified against the countries its routes cross, so this page says nothing about the company itself — only where to go and look. Official site ↗
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- 12
- Total length
- 1,752 km
- Countries
- Portugal, Spain
- Fastest
- Alfa Pendular · 220 km/h
- Longest
- Intercidades · 353 km
- Oldest line here
- 1863
Classic (11)
- Intercidades
Climbs the Beira Alta line to Guarda, Portugal’s highest city at 1,056 m, on the historic Sud Express path toward the Spanish border.
Wikipedia ↗ - Alfa Pendular
Portugal’s tilting Pendolino leans into the curves at up to 220 km/h, dropping down the Alentejo to the Algarve at Faro.
Wikipedia ↗ - Linha do Oeste
A slow, winding single-track line through the vineyards and spa towns of Estremadura (Torres Vedras, Caldas da Rainha) to the Atlantic at Figueira da Foz.
Wikipedia ↗ - Comboio Raiano
The borderland train across the cork oaks of the Alentejo, Abrantes to Badajoz by way of Ponte de Sor, Crato and Elvas, on the link to Spain that opened in September 1863.
- Linha do Algarve
The Algarve coast end to end: Portimão, Silves’ red castle, Faro and the Ria Formosa lagoons out to Vila Real de Santo António on the Guadiana — every summer visitor’s slow shuttle.
Wikipedia ↗ - Linha do Minho
Follows the Atlantic, then the Minho river, to the star-fort town of Valença, staring across the water at Spain’s Tui.
Wikipedia ↗ - Intercidades
Across the Tagus and into the cork-oak Alentejo: ninety minutes from Lisbon to Évora’s Roman temple and bone chapel.
Wikipedia ↗ - Linha de Guimarães
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.
Wikipedia ↗ - Linha da Beira Alta
The last forty five kilometres of Portugal, Guarda out to the Spanish frontier at Vilar Formoso across the high Beira, on the line to the border inaugurated on 3 August 1882.
Wikipedia ↗ - Linha do Vouga
The last metre gauge railway carrying passengers in Portugal, an hour from the Atlantic at Espinho inland to Oliveira de Azeméis, opened on 21 December 1908 and still running on the same narrow track.
Wikipedia ↗ - Linha do Leste
Twenty nine minutes up the Tagus from the junction at Entroncamento to Abrantes, the first leg of the line Portugal opened on 28 October 1863 to reach the Spanish border.
Wikipedia ↗
Luxury (1)
- Presidential Train
Royal-blue saloon carriages built from 1890, which once carried heads of state, now a fine-dining train up the terraced Douro wine valley.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does CP run?
12 of the routes in this atlas are CP services, covering 1,752 km across 2 countries (Portugal, Spain). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest CP train?
The Alfa Pendular, Lisbon to Faro, at up to 220 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 2 h 52 min over 304 km.
Does CP run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 12 CP routes listed here are daytime services.
Which is the longest CP route?
The Intercidades, 353 km from Lisbon to Guarda, taking 4 h 11 min at its fastest. The oldest line CP runs over here opened in 1863.
Countries CP runs in
- 🇪🇸 Train routes in Spain 67 routes
- 🇵🇹 Train routes in Portugal 18 routes
Other operators in Portugal
- Comboios de Portugal 2 routes