Rossio railway station

The Lisbon Rossio station (Portuguese Estação de Caminhos de Ferro do Rossio [ ɯʃtɐsɐu dɯ kɐmiɲuʃ dɯ fɛʁu you ʁusiu ] ) is a 1890 eröffneter railway terminus in the city center of the Portuguese capital Lisbon, it is between the homonymous square and Praça dos Restauradores. At the station are usually just the trains running at 20- minute intervals suburban trains of the state Comboios de Portugal to Sintra ( Linha de Sintra ), which are operated by the subsidiary CP Urbano de Lisboa.

History

Opened in 1873, the Royal Portuguese Railway Company ( Companhia Real dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses ) the Linha de Sintra between Sintra and Pedrouços in the northwest of Lisbon, but a direct connection to the city center was missing initially. The opening of the section of the Linha de Cintura and thus the station Alcântara -Terra did not help much in solving the problem, well at least it was possible to achieve the Lisbon downtown faster with a switch in the tram.

To solve this problem, the Linha de Sintra and also to build an inner-city central train station in Lisbon, the Portuguese Royal Railway Company decided to build a terminus station on the main square of Lisbon, the Rossio. Construction of the station building itself began in 1886 and had been terminated in the following year. The architect José Luís Monteiro designed a held in the Manueline style facade with two horseshoe-shaped entrances. At the entrance there is a statue designed by Edmond Bartissol the Portuguese king Sebastião I.. Platform- hall is at its highest point 21 meters high and 130 meters wide. The difference in height between road and station platform level was earlier today preferred overcome by ramps with escalators. However, a connection to the rail network still missing since the construction work had not been completed for the inner city, 2.6 km long tunnel between Rossio and Campolide. The original plan was that Rossio could be extended to a through station. The line should then be passed over the city center, including railway station with the Linha do Norte and the Linha de Cascais on Terreiro do Paço, a bridge over the Tagus, Cacilhas and Seixal to Barreiro station, where the Linha do Alentejo begins.

The first test trains through the new tunnel could only go from 8 April, 1889, the official opening of the station under the name " Estação Avenida da " (Station Avenue ) was held on 11 June 1890. The cost of building the station and the tunnel amounted to 730,000 Réis. The Royal Portuguese railway company was therefore now in a position for trains from Sintra to let go to directly to the Rossio. Between 1889 and 1895 also drove the trains of the newly constructed Linha de Cascais to Rossio, as the Cais do Sodré railway station was not completed until 1895. Also, the Rossio train station took over the planned function of a central station, all long-distance trains from Spain and France ended there. He lost this function only with the opening of the Santa Apolonia train station further east

The route to Sintra and thus the infrastructure of the railway station Rossio was electrified in 1955. In this case, a lowering of the platforms 30 to 50 Zentimern was necessary. Since 1959 there is a direct transition between the features of the Linha de Sintra and the trains of the Lisbon Metro, which stops at the nearby underground station Restauradores ( blue line). In 1971, the Instituto Português do Património Arquitectónico (German Portuguese Institute for Architectural monuments) the station building as " building the public interest " under monument protection.

For a short time - between 1988 and 1991 - held at the Rossio train station again long-distance trains, the CP sent a Intercidades - line from Rossio to Leiria one. However, this did not meet the expected demand. In a new introduction in 2002 (and the subsequent reinstatement in 2005 ) but the trains started in Santa Apolonia train station.

In 2004, the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering firm ( Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil) that the tunnel ceiling of the Rossio tunnel has strong cracks, so that the REFER and the Portuguese Ministry of Transport decided a fundamental reorganization of the tunnel and the station building. Since 22 October 2004, the railway station and the tunnel were blocked, the trains of the Linha de Sintra drove since about the Linha de Cintura to the train station Lisbon Oriente and beyond. The re- opening had initially announced the REFER for 2006. It took place on 16 February 2008.

Traffic

Today stop at the station exclusively suburban trains of CP Urbano de Lisboa. In fifteen minutes the train route Rossio Sintra wrong line of family Linha de Sintra.