Almost faded away(1975-1996)In the second half of the seventies the decline was continued. First the lines to the north (6, 7 & 8) were closed. Only replacement was not by trolleybuses anymore, but by Diesel buses. The trolleybuses themselves were to be replaced by Diesel too. The "Carvalhosa" route was closed, which was the end of the line numbers 2, 4 and 5. Their work was taken over by the "Palácio" lines 3, 18 and 19. Also the Batalha - Boavista route disappeared, which was the end of the lines 16 & 17. Soon after that the lines via "Palácio" were cut back from Carmo to Boavista. And from 1978 in the late evenings (after 21h00) and on sundays the tram operations were suspended complete. A long period without alterations followed, except for the replacement of line 3 by Diesel buses in 1984. The maintenance of the cars was poor. All looked that the final closure could happen any moment. In 1993 the route to Matosinhos was closed. Line 19 was taken over by buses and line 1 cut back to the Castelo do Queijo. One year later also line 1 was replaced by buses, leaving only line 18. On the map is shown the 1984-93 situation when only the last three lines remained. The routes of contempory network were:
Network 1993
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