The STCP intended
to modernise the network with replacing the trams by trolleybuses.
This modernisation was only partly effectuated. In fact the tram
even did survive his supposed successor. During the years the
following trolleybus lines did exist:
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9 - Bolhão -
Praça Marquês de Pombal - Rua Costa Cabral - Areosa -
Águas Santas - Ermesinde (Opened 17 November 1968 as
successor of tramline 9. Replaced by Diesel buses August
1994)
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10 - Bolhão -
Bonfim - São Roque - Venda Nova (Opened 10
September 1967 as successor of tramline 10. Replaced by Diesel buses 9
May 1977)
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11 - Bolhão -
Bonfim - São Roque - Santa Eulália - São Pedro da Cova (Opened 10 September 1967 as
successor of tramline 10/. Replaced by Diesel buses 4
March 1995)
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12 - Bolhão -
Bonfim - São Roque - Santa Eulália - Gondomar (Opened 10
September 1967 as successor of tramline 10//. Replaced by
Diesel buses 4 March 1995)
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14 - Hospital de São João - Circunvalação - Alto da Serra (Short
living trolleybusline in the 1990's)
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29 - Bolhão -
Praça Marquês de Pombal - Rua Costa Cabral - Areosa -
Águas Santas - Travagem (Opened 17 November 1968. Replaced
by Diesel buses August 1994)
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31 - Praça Almeida
Garrett - Batalha - Ponte D.Luiz I (upper deck) -
Mafamude - Santo Ovídio - Soares dos Reis
- Rua Candido dos Reis - Ponte D.Luiz I (lower deck) - Infante - Praça Almeida
Garrett (Opened 3 May 1959. Closed 17 April 1978)
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32 - Praça Almeida
Garrett - Infante - Ponte D.Luiz I (lower deck)
- Rua Candido dos Reis - Soares dos Reis - Santo Ovídio -
Mafamude - Ponte D.Luiz I (upper deck) - Avenida
D.Afonso Henriques - Praça Almeida
Garrett (Opened 3
May 1959. Closed 17 April 1978)
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32 - Rua Gonçalo Cristovão - Praça Almeida
Garrett - Infante - Ponte D.Luiz I (lower deck)
- Rua Candido dos Reis - Soares dos Reis - Santo Ovídio (Opened
17 April 1978. On 10 July 1978 the city terminus was changed into Rua
Sá da Bandeira and on 24 August 1981 into Rua
31 de Janeiro. Closed in July 1993)
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33 - Praça Almeida
Garrett - Batalha (opposite direction Avenida
D.Afonso Henriques, since 17 April 1978 inversed
directions) - Ponte D.Luiz I (upper deck) -
Devesas - Arco do Prado - Coimbroes (Opened 1
January 1959 as successor of tramline 14. On 17 April 1978 extended from Praça Almeida
Garrett to Rua Gonçalo Cristovão. On
10 July 1978 the city terminus was changed into Rua Sá da Bandeira and
on 24 August 1981 into Rua 31 de Janeiro. Closed
in July 1993)
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34 - Bolhão -
Bonfim - Campanhã (Opened 17 November 1968.
Closed 13 December 1976)
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35 - Lordelo -
Palácio de Crystal - Carmo - Praça da Liberdade -
Batalha - Biblioteca - Campanhã (Opened
from Lordelo to Praça da Liberdade 1 January
1959 as successor of tramline 3 and extended to Campanhã
4 March 1960 as successor of tramline 12. Replaced by
Diesel buses from 17 November 1968 until 17 May 1970 except for peak hour
extras. Closed 13 December 1976)
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35A - Lordelo - Palácio de Crystal -
Carmo - Praça da Liberdade - Batalha - Biblioteca -
Campanhã - Bonfim (Opened 11 June 1964 as
reinforcement of line 35 and replacement of tramline 11. Closed 17 November 1968)
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36 - Praça Almeida
Garrett - Batalha (opposite direction Avenida
D.Afonso Henriques, since 17 April 1978 inversed
directions) - Ponte D.Luiz I (upper deck) -
Soares dos Reis - Santo Ovidio (Opened 3
May 1959 as successor of tramline 13. On 17 April 1978 extended from Praça Almeida
Garrett to Rua Gonçalo Cristovão. On
10 July 1978 the city terminus was changed into Rua Sá da Bandeira and
on 24 August 1981 into Rua 31 de Janeiro. Closed
in July 1993)
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37 - Praça Almeida
Garrett - Mafamude - Santo Ovídio (Opened 3
May 1959. Closed 4 March 1960)
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49 - Alfândega - Infante
- Praça Almeida Garrett - Bolhão - Praça Marquês
de Pombal - Rua Costa Cabral - Areosa - Hospital São João (Opened 1986. The last part, Bolhão
- Hospital São João, was the
last trolleybus line and replaced by Diesel buses 27
December 1997)
Depot of the trolleybuses was Carcereira, replaced by Areosa on 26 October
1968.
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