Linha de Sintra is a railway line which connects the stations of

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and

Sintra Sintra (, ) is a town and municipality in the Greater Lisbon region of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 377,835, in an area of . Sintra is one of the most urbanized and densely populat ...

, in

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. The railway was one of the first to be planned in Portugal, and was opened on 2 April 1887. The southern terminus was changed from Alcântara-Terra to Rossio, after the station was inaugurated in June 1891. The

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works were completed on 20 January 1949, and during the 1950s the line was

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. New rolling stock was introduced in the 1990s. Sintra from Castle of the Moors

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Iberian gauge railways Railway lines opened in 1887 {{Europe-rail-transport-stub

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