Massarelos

Massarelos museum. The highest part of the building is the former boiler house and now lodging the museum trams. In the part left to it the thermo-electric station was housed. Part of the old equipment is still present.

The coal came from a mine in São Pedro da Cova and was brought by special tramcars: Zorras. Next to the power plant there was a small depot, mainly to be used by these coal trams. In the fifties the STCP changed for electricity from the grid and the Massarelos power station went out of use in 1957.

Since 1991 the buildings are lodging the trammuseum. The small depot is in use as running depot since 1988. With the final closure of Boavista also all cars in storage and all maintenance activities are concentrated at Massarelos.

The buildings at Massarelos with at left the former power plant and at right the depot.