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Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos (CPTM) ( en, São Paulo Metropolitan Trains Company) is a

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company owned by the São Paulo State Department for Metropolitan Transports. It was created on May 28, 1992, from several railroads that already existed in

. Part of the

rail

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, CPTM has 57 stations in five lines, with a total length of . The system carries about 2 million passengers a day. On December 7, 2018, CPTM set a weekday ridership record with 3,221,035 trips.

History

Most of railways now run by CPTM were built between 1860 and 1957 by the

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(lines 7 and 10),

Estrada de Ferro Sorocabana Rail transport in Brazil began in the 19th century and there were many different railway companies. The railways were nationalised under RFFSA (Rede Ferroviária Federal, Sociedade Anônima) in 1957. Between 1999 and 2007, RFFSA was broken u ...

(lines 8 and 9) and

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(lines 11 and 12). These railways were eventually incorporated into the state-owned

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(RFFSA) in 1957 and

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S.A. (FEPASA) 1971. Finally, in 1992 the urban sections of RFFSA and FEPASA merged, forming CPTM. Between the end of the 1990s and the early 2000s, CPTM began the conversion of some metropolitan lines to provide a service similar to

and better integrate with the

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. Most of the stations where either rebuilt or modernized and new trains were purchased allowing the headway of lines to be as low as four minutes in some lines. This experience started in Line E in the year 2000, in the stretch known as "East Express", serving the east end of São Paulo City and running parallel to Line 3 - Red. The proposed

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regional railway project is considering using Line 7 tracks for providing service to neighboring cities of Jundiaí,

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. In 2018, CPTM opened Line 13, the first line completely built and operated by the company. This line connects Line 12 to the

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, with a special Express service connecting it to the central

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station, and another service connecting it to the

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station, both only operating on a specific schedule.

Operation

CPTM operates five lines in the

area, identified by number and color. Most of these lines run on existing surface tracks that continue out of

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intercity freight lines and share right of way with freight trains. The more lightly used outer sections of several lines have

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s. Service starts every day at 4 AM, when trains depart from each terminus, until the last train leaves at midnight. On Saturdays operation is extended until 1 AM. The company charges a flat fare that can be paid either by magnetic ticket sold in the stations or with a rechargeable smartcard, and grants access to any of the rail lines on the Greater São Paulo, including lines operated by the

Lines

Expansion

Express services

Gallery

File:Linha6dentro.jpg, Internal view of a 2000 Series CPTM train File:Estação da Luz 2015.jpg, Luz Station. File:Brooklin ¹².jpg, CPTM 2070 Series train in Brooklin CBD. File:Estação Ferraz de Vasconcelos2.jpg, Ferraz de Vasconcelos Station. File:Trem_Serie_2500_na_estação_Engenheiro_Goulart_(2020).jpg, Engenheiro Goulart Station

References

External links

Official page of the CPTM

Secretaria dos Transportes Metropolitanos
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