The Estrada Ferro Recife ao São Francisco (EFRSF) or Recife and São Francisco Railway Company was a
railway company
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* a manufacturing company,
* a rail transport operations, railway undertaking providing services through operating rolling stock,
* a railway infrastructure manager ...
. Opened in 1858, it was the first railway built in
Pernambuco
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and the second in
Brazil
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.
The initial section went from Cinco Pontas in
Recife
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to
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* Cabo Blanco Absol ...
, in the state of
Pernambuco
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, over a length of 31.5
kilometers
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, on a broad gauge (1.60
meters
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).
In 1901, the
Great Western of Brasil Railway Company, an English company, acquired the concession from EFRSF and other rail companies operating in Pernambuco.
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Railway companies of Brazil
Railway companies established in 1852
Railway companies disestablished in 1901
History of Pernambuco
1852 establishments in Brazil
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