Linha do Douro

Beyond Régua the valley narrows until vineyard terraces rise straight from the water, shaped by hand across three centuries of port-wine making. The rails once continued over the Spanish frontier: that lonely section closed in 1988, leaving Pocinho as a dead end deep in wine country and all the better for it. Pinhão is the set-piece stop, its station faced with azulejo panels of the vintage, and in late September the harvest spills down to the quays below the line.

Stations

1. 1 kmErmesinde +3
2. 3 kmCabeda
3. 7 kmSuzão
4. 8 kmValongo
5. 11 kmSão Martinho do Campo
6. 14 kmTerronhas
7. Show 33 more stations

   1. 15 kmTrancoso
   2. 17 kmRecarei-Sobreira
   3. 20 kmParada
   4. 22 kmCête
   5. 24 kmIrivo
   6. 25 kmOleiros
   7. 27 kmParedes +1
   8. 30 kmPenafiel +1
   9. 33 kmBustelo
   10. 35 kmMeinedo
   11. 38 kmCaíde +1
   12. 41 kmOliveira
   13. 43 kmVila Meã
   14. 44 kmRecesinhos
   15. 47 kmLivração +1
   16. 52 kmMarco de Canaveses +1
   17. 57 kmJuncal
   18. 62 kmPala
   19. 64 kmMosteirô +1
   20. 70 kmAregos +1
   21. 73 kmMirão
   22. 76 kmErmida +1
   23. 79 kmPorto de Rei
   24. 83 kmBarqueiros
   25. 86 kmRede +1
   26. 89 kmCaldas de Moledo
   27. 93 kmGodim
   28. 95 kmRégua +1
   29. 104 kmCovelinhas +1
   30. 110 kmFerrão +1
   31. 118 kmPinhão +1
   32. 131 kmTua +1
   33. 136 kmAlegria +1
8. 142 kmFerradosa +1
9. 144 kmVargelas +1
10. 149 kmVesúvio +1
11. 154 kmFreixo de Numão - Mós do Douro +1
12. 162 kmPocinho +1

The stations OpenStreetMap maps along this line, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Not every train stops at every station. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

Along the way

• São Bento azulejos, Porto
• Douro riverside from Mosteirô
• Peso da Régua wine quays
• Pinhão’s tiled station
• Valeira gorge
• Pocinho, gateway to Côa rock art

How this line was checked

• The 163 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 1724300 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 31 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 IR 861
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

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