Monte Railway Complete Research By Peter Harris

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Thanks to Peter Harris who has shared with me his research on the Monte Railway. He has put it in 10 parts and you can view or download all the PDFs on the links below.

If you have any other information, or maybe you know people that used the railway, or have any old photos of the stations, Peter would find this very interesting. Email me at madeiraislandnews@gmail.com, or leave comments below.

1. Introduction

2. Pombal Station (City)

3. The forgotten station (Atalhinho)

4. Largo da Fonte station (Monte

5. Terminus (Terreiro da Luta)

6. Carros de Cesto (Basket carts)

7. Carros Americano

8. Harbour railway

9. Route maps

10. References & copyright

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11 Responses

  1. Fantastic. Thank you Peter for all your hard work. A great tour when we come out in September he says with hope.

  2. Thank you Peter. Living in between Rua de Santa Luzia and Rua do Comboio and directly behind Travessa do Comboio (our drive way) it is wonderful to see and read about this train line. We so wish the Pombal Station would be sympathetically restored.

    2. Finally made it back to Madeira after 4 cancellations in the last 18 months and so glad to be beach on this wonderful island.

      Went to Monte and absolutely delighted to see the wonderful restoration of the old station building. We can only hope that the same could be achieved with the other old station buildings.

      Peter & Julie

  3. Just imagine how busy that raillway woud be nowadays. Especially if it undercut the cable car !
    And I second Tim’s tour hint !

  4. When you are typing a post, it shows as a tiny font. Only when you press the post button do you see all the typos ! And there ain’t nuthin’ you can do about it…….

    1. Yes, there is no easy way for you to edit your comments in WordPress sadly. ?

  6. This is a really great write up, we likewise have a home on the route, we have commissioned two tile motifs for outside wall panels of our villa which will be of the iconic photos Peter uses in his write up. These were commissioned just before Peter released onto blog.

  7. Thank you peter, enjoyed reading about the Monte Railway. I worked for 10 years on the Great Orme Tramway, Llandudno,North Wales which is the oldest (still operating) cable operated funicular tramway in Britain. There are lots of items on the internet regarding this tramway, if anyone wishes to check it out.
    I found the history of the Monte railway fascinating, so next time in madeira will be checking out the route and stations.

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