Classic route
Alfa Pendular
Lisbon → Braga · Portugal
Alfa Pendular in pictures
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- Distance
- 390 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 111 km/h
- Top speed
- 220 km/h
- Operator
- Comboios de Portugal
- Train
- CP 4000 Pendolino
- Countries
- Portugal
- In service since
- 1999
- Runs
- 5–6× daily each way
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A tilting Pendolino leaning through the curves of the 19th-century Linha do Norte between Portugal’s two great cities.
Portugal’s flagship tilting train has worked the Linha do Norte since 1999, when Fiat-built Pendolinos cut the Lisbon–Porto run below three hours. It leaves along the Tagus estuary, calls at Calatrava’s glass-and-steel Oriente station, then runs the Atlantic side of the country (Coimbra’s university hill, the Aveiro lagoon) before the set-piece arrival: high over the Douro on the Ponte de São João, Eiffel’s older Maria Pia bridge alongside, with Porto’s tiled rooftops stacked below Campanhã.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3587704 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 30 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 131
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Tagus estuary out of Lisbon
- Oriente station’s glass canopy
- Coimbra’s university hill
- Aveiro lagoon country
- Douro crossing beside the Maria Pia bridge
- Porto Campanhã arrival
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