A newly built railway station in central Portugal’s village (and present-day municipality) of Abrantes first went into service. Abrantes Station was opened by the now-defunct company originally known as Companhia dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses (Royal Company of Portuguese Railways), which had been established in 1860 and would serve for many years as the country’s main operator of rail transportation. The formal inauguration of this station, however, did not take place until May 5, 1863.
Abrante Station remains in operation today as a link for the following railway lines: Linha da Beira Baxa and Linha do Leste. (The accompanying photo of this station was taken in 1993.) Abrantes Station also has a literary claim to fame; the world-renowned Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) cites it in his 1868 book A Visit to Portugal in 1866.
Photo Credit: Phil Richards (https://www.flickr.com/people/13035092@N00) – licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
For more information on Abrantes Station, please check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrantes_railway_station
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