Luxury route
Presidential Train
Porto → Pocinho · Portugal
Presidential Train in pictures
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- Distance
- 175 km
- Fastest time
- 1 day
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- CP
- Train
- Historic 1890 saloons
- Countries
- Portugal
- In service since
- 2016
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Royal-blue saloon carriages built from 1890, which once carried heads of state, now a fine-dining train up the terraced Douro wine valley.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2645378 — 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 9 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Comboios de Portugal — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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