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that used to serve the town of

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, in the municipality of

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, Portugal.

Description

The Carviçais railway station complex had, in addition to the main building for passenger use (which was located on the south-east side of the track),(anónimo)
''Mapa 20 : Diagrama das Linhas Férreas Portuguesas com as estações (Edição de 1985)''
CP: Departamento de Transportes: Serviço de Estudos: Sala de Desenho / Fergráfica — Artes Gráficas L.^da: Lisboa, 1985 a warehouse for goods. It also had a wye for reversing locomotives. Traces of the wye can still be seen in an aerial photograph, to the north of the track, about 100 metres east of the main building. Next to the station, on the side of the track, was a barn belonging to the .

History

Inauguration and active years

The section between Pocinho and Carviçais was inaugurated on 17 September 1911, and was the first part of the

Sabor line The Sabor line ''(Linha do Sabor)'' was a railway in north-east Portugal. It ran for nearly 106 km between Pocinho and Duas Igrejas, near Miranda do Douro. It closed in 1988. History The Sabor line served a very rural part of the country ...

to be opened. The station was inaugurated with the name Carviçaes, later changed to Carviçais due to Orthographic reforms. In July 1926, it was already planned that the Sabor line would soon be continued from Carviçais. In fact, the next section, to Lagoaça, was opened one year later on 6 July 1927. In 1933, the Ministry of Planning opened the line to the public. In 1933, the Minister of Public Works and Communications approved an opinion from the General Directorate of Railways, which referred to the choice of land next to the station for the installation of workshops to repair rolling stock. Between 1931 and 1932, 600,000

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s were earmarked for this project.

Closure

The Sabor line and the Carviçais railway station were closed on 1 August 1988.REIS ''et al'', 2006:150

References

Bibliography

External links

The station's diagramWikimapia's page about the Carviçais railway stationCarviçais railway station page on SIPA
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Railway stations in Portugal opened in 1911 Disused railway stations in Portugal Railway stations in Portugal closed in 1988