Classic route
Linha do Algarve
Lagos → Vila Real de Santo António · Portugal
Linha do Algarve in pictures
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- Distance
- 140 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 60 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- CP
- Train
- CP Regional
- Countries
- Portugal
- In service since
- 1922
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 21107712 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 5903 (Zug-Nr. 5903)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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