“Incomprehensible that Cascais line has trains that are 70-years-old” – minister

Portugal’s minister of infrastructures Pedro Nuno Santos has said today that it is “incomprehensible and unjustifiable” that the much-in-demand Cascais rail line (in and out of Lisbon) is operating with trains that are 70 years old. Minister since 2019 in a government that has been in power for seven years, Mr Santos said: “We have a line that is from the last century. It is incomprehensible and unjustifiable that the country has let the line fall so far behind…” He was talking in the context of the start, finally, of works to pull the line into the 21st century at a cost of around €100 million.