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Senhora da Hora
Porto Metro station
The station's platforms, showing the layout with a side platform and an island platform flanking three tracks
General information
Location	Porto Portugal
Coordinates	41°11′17.14″N 8°39′16.08″W / 41.1880944°N 8.6544667°W / 41.1880944; -8.6544667
Line(s)
Platforms	1 side platform and 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	5 June 2004
Services
Preceding station   Porto Metro   Following station Vasco da Gama toward Senhor de Matosinhos   Line A   Sete Bicas toward Estádio do Dragão Fonte do Cuco toward Póvoa de Varzim   Line B   Pedras Rubras toward Póvoa de Varzim   Line Bx   Fonte do Cuco toward ISMAI   Line C   Sete Bicas toward Campanhã Fonte do Cuco toward Aeroporto   Line E   Sete Bicas toward Estádio do Dragão Terminus   Line F   Sete Bicas toward Fânzeres

Senhora da Hora is a light rail station on the Porto Metro system in Porto, Portugal. The station is on the surface, adjacent to the Campanhã railway station, Porto's principal main line station. It was opened in 2004.

History

The station was built on the site of the former Avenida da França station [pt] on the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge Porto to Póvoa and Famalicão railway line that operated into the Porto-Trindade terminus. This station and line dated from the opening of that terminus in 1938, and before then the line terminated at Porto-Boavista [pt], just to the south of Casa da Música station. Avenida da França station and the line into Trindade station were closed in 2001 to enable the construction of the Metro.

The new station was designed by Eduardo Souto de Moura, who also designed the Metro's Trindade station. It was inaugurated on 7 December 2002 and commercial services started on 1 January 2003. This section was initially served by the initial line A operating between terminals at Trindade and Senhor de Matosinhos. The line was extended eastwards from Trinidade to Estádio do Dragão on 5 June 2004. Using the same tracks, line B started operation on 13 March 2005, line C on 30 July 2005, line E on 27 May 2006, and line F on 2 January 2011.

Services

The station is a through station on lines A, B, C and E, and is the north-western terminus for trains on line F. These lines run as one line within the metropolitan area, and the next station to the south-east is Sete Bicas [pt]. To the north there is a junction, where line A diverges, whilst line B splits into a basic line B that stops at all stations, and the express Bx that only stops at principal stations. The next station to the north on line A is Vasco da Gama [pt], on line Bx it is Pedras Rubras [pt], whilst on the other lines it is Fonte do Cuco [pt].

Senhora da Hora station is located at street level, in the centre of Av. Fabril do Norte. It has three through tracks served by a side platform and an island platform, accessed directly from the street.

References

1. ^ "História" [History] (in European Portuguese). Metro do Porto, SA. Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
2. ^ Schwandl, Robert. "UrbanRail.Net > Europe > Porto > Porto Metro". Archived from the original on 4 December 2024. Retrieved 4 December 2024.
3. Torres, Carlos Manitto (16 March 1958). "A evolução das linhas portuguesas e o seu significado ferroviário" [The evolution of Portuguese lines and their railway significance] (PDF). Gazeta dos Caminhos de Ferro (in Portuguese). 71 (1686): 133–140. Retrieved 30 June 2014 – via Hemeroteca Digital de Lisboa.
4. Goodwin, Kate (19 January 2014). "Meet the architects: Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura". Royal Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
5. "Casa da Música station". portugalvisitor.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2024. Retrieved 6 December 2024.