Cais do Sodré railway station

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The Lisbon Cais do Sodré railway station (Portuguese Estação de Caminhos -de- ferro de Cais do Sodré, usually only briefly Cais do Sodré Cais Sodré or ) is a transport hub in the Portuguese capital Lisbon.

Boasting lovely views on Tejoufer in Freguesia Misericordia railway station provides both the traits of Comboios de Portugal on the Linha de Cascais, the Linha Verde the Lisbon Metro, several ferries on the adjacent ferry terminal of Transtejo as well as trams and buses of urban Carris.

Origin of the name

The Origin of the name of the node Cais do Sodré is controversial. While cais can undoubtedly translate with " Kai ( - wall ) ", " pier " or " platform ", the meaning of Sodré is unknown. According to a theory of the economic historian Maria Júlia de Oliveira e Silva Sodré refers to the merchant Vicente Sodré, son of Fradique Sodré. Vicente Sodré to have built several other buildings in the area after the earthquake of 1755. 1779 was the first time a court facility on the banks of the name " Sodré ". The journalist Julio de Castilho in turn argues that the name comes from a family Pereira Sodré Tibau, whose two members, and António Duarte, owners were some of the buildings.

In everyday parlance, the term " o Cais do Sodré " covers the entire expanse between Largo do Corpo Santo and Ferry Terminal on the eastern side, on the western side between the Praça de São Paulo and the station building the Linha de Cascais. In the north, the area is in turn limited by the streets Rua do Corpo Santo, Rua de São Paulo, in the south by the Capital Tagus River. This colloquial extension of a geographical term is also called " vox populi ".

Means of transport

Railway

Opened in 1889, the Portuguese Royal Railway Company ( Companhia Real dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses ) Linha de Cascais between the resort towns of Cascais and Estoril classy until today no longer existing station Pedrouços, shortly before Belém. From the outset it was planned the Linha de Cascais and the Linha do Norte to connect with each other at Santa Apolonia train station, so in principle direct trains between Cascais and Porto would have been possible. On September 1, 1895, the railway company extended the railway line to the heart of the city at Cais do Sodré. Due to the time constraints and the non-existent funding base, only several wooden barracks were first built at Tejoufer. Initially, this was enough to satisfy the passenger demands, since only the travel comfort of trains and the journey time advantage was enormous. Reported but the "Gazeta dos Caminhos de Ferro " from 1 September 1895 that the journey time by tram amounts to about 40 minutes after Belém, after Algés even over an hour.

With the progressive development of the tram and the low breakpoint distances on the Linha de Caiscais this lost especially from 1905 on, more and more passengers. With the significantly cheaper tickets the urban streetcar, this in turn developed into a strong competition with the railroad. Therefore, in 1924 took over the private Sociedade de Estoril previously state-owned railway route with the aim to modernize the track.

To meet the need for representation, the Sociedade de Estoril in 1925 commissioned architect Pardal Monteiro with the construction of an attractive station building at Cais do Sodré as a starting point for the Linha de Cascais. Monteiro designed the access building, built between 1925 and 1929 in the style of Art Deco. Remarkably include the related mosaics and stucco elements. The entrance hall is dominated by glass and steel, so that, depending on the time of day, illuminate by sunlight colors the hall. Simultaneously with the construction and electrification of the Linha de Cascais took place, the first electrified railway in Portugal.

On 28 May 1963, the 70 meter long concrete slab broke on one of the platforms is considered as just import a train and buried many passengers among themselves. Despite immediate rescue operations more than 40 people died, more than 60 people were injured. The cause was probably the washed out by heavy rain concrete. This led to the rupture of a supporting pillar.

Nevertheless, even though since 1976 the Linha de Cascais is again operated by governmental hand, is not significantly changed the appearance of the entrance building. Between 2006 and 2008, the railway infrastructure company Rede Ferroviária Nacional renovated the station fundamentally to improve the transition between the railway and the metro station opened in 2002.

Ferries

Since 1838, the first British Ferries from Lisbon on the Tagus drove to the other side of the river. The company Companhia do Tejo e Sado (or later Companhia de Barcos Movidos Navegação do Tejo por por Vapor ) operating steamships, and later also other companies such as Vapores Lisbonenses the entrepreneur Frederico Burnay. It passed the first time connections to Cacilhas, Seixal, Aldeia Galega (now Montijo ), Trafaria and Cascais. A first car ferry service started its service in 1903, initially near the present railway station Santa Apolonia on, later this moved also to Cais do Sodré.

The opening of the Ponte Salazar - today Ponte 25 de Abril - in 1966 decreased ridership of the ferry significantly, but now offered a much faster connection to the car on the other side of the river. However, the compounds remained composed as the motorway takes a larger arc around the located right on the shore towns like Cacilhas. Since 1975, all ferry services were nationalized and merged under the name Transtejo.

In 1992, the Portuguese Government under Cavaco Silva decided initially planning for the extension of the metro to Cais do Sodré to work out. In this context, the node should be with its various transport completely rebuilt Construction work on a completely new ferry terminal for connections to Seixal, Montijo and Cacilhas began in 2002. The two-storey building has a total floor space of 5000 square meters, of which 3300 for the clearance of ships that can be achieved over three jetty used three waiting rooms and pre-and sales rooms. The remaining 1700 square meter on the first floor are the shipping companies Transtejo and Soflusa available. The investment costs amounted to twelve million euros, José Manuel Durão Barroso opened the new terminal on 11 May 2004. Since the ferry terminal Cais do Sodré is often used as a backup for the other two Lisbon ferry terminal Belém and Terreiro do Paço, especially since the latter was rebuilt between 2006 and 2008.

Metro

Since 18 April 1998, the features of the new Linha Verde drive (green line ) to the Cais do Sodré railway station. Since then, the station has become one of the most important in the Lisbon Metro network.

Bus and tram

On 31 August 1901, the first tram was opened in Lisbon, she joined the Cais do Sodré railway station with Algés. The route through the suburb of Belém to Algés is until today still exists, today it is the most important part of the Lisbon tram. A second route to the Cais do Sodré railway station was opened on November 2, 1907, at first she joined the station by Carmo, Príncipe Real, Rato, Campolide and Alto de São João. This tram route was operated until 1995, but then stopped because of construction work; it was not reopened until today. Reactivation is foreseen.

In addition to the tram stop and numerous bus lines, including Belém, Algés, the Praça Marquês de Pombal, after Oriente and the airport. Bus and tram have here a combined stop.