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Situated in the civil parish","datePublished":"2015-08-14","dateModified":"2015-08-14","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/author\/lordneo\/#Person","name":"lordneo","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/author\/lordneo\/","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/44a4cee54c4c053e967fe3e7d054edd4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/44a4cee54c4c053e967fe3e7d054edd4?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/wiki4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/download.jpg","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/3e\/Santa_Apolonia_Railway_Station_-_A._S._Fonseca.jpg\/235px-Santa_Apolonia_Railway_Station_-_A._S._Fonseca.jpg","url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/3e\/Santa_Apolonia_Railway_Station_-_A._S._Fonseca.jpg\/235px-Santa_Apolonia_Railway_Station_-_A._S._Fonseca.jpg","height":"184","width":"235"},"url":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/santa-apolonia-railway-station-wikipedia\/","wordCount":2738,"articleBody":"Railway station in Portugal  The Santa Apol\u00f3nia Station is the oldest railway terminus in Portugal. Situated in the civil parish of S\u00e3o Vicente, in the central part of the municipality of Lisbon, on the northern margin of the Tagus River in the historical district of Alfama.Table of Contents  History[edit]Architecture[edit]Services[edit]References[edit]Notes[edit]Sources[edit]History[edit]  A 19th century view of the Santa Apol\u00f3nia station  The interior of the main platforms at Santa Apol\u00f3nia  A 20th century view of the Santa Apol\u00f3nia stationIn December 1844, under the initiative of Jos\u00e9 Bernardo da Costa Cabral, the Companhia das Obras P\u00fablicas was founded, with the purpose of constructing a rail line between Lisbon and Spain, in addition to intermodal station between rail and maritime services. The station was known as the Cais da Am\u00e9rica or Cais da Europa, and allowed rail passengers from Europe to offload to ships for America.[1]  The initial project was for the construction at the Cais dos Soldados (Soldiers Wharf). Meanwhile, in December 1852, the engineer Thomaz Rumball proposed two alternatives, alongside the Museu Militar de Lisboa (Military Museum of Lisbon), or in the proximity of the Largo do Intendente. Another engineer, Harcourt White, also rejected the option of Cais dos Soldades on January 1853, because the location was too small to construct a station. He suggested that the station be situated along the river, after the Church of Anjos in Xabregas, where at the time there was free space. An executive committee was nominated to plan the construction of the Lisbon station, proposing the construction of a building along Rocha do Conde de \u00d3bidos, with the capacity to receive passengers and commerce, with one of the lines continuing to area around the customs house in Terreiro do Pa\u00e7o.[2] The construction project to Spain, therefore, began this year, under orders of Fontes Pereira de Melo,[1]The actual project to construct the station at Cais dos Soldados was approved by the government on 8 March 1854.[3] The plan presented a station that included distinctive elements for commercial and passenger traffic, repair workshops, warehouses and services. For the passenger terminal, the government acquired the old Convent of Santa Apol\u00f3nia, but the former army arsenal in the location was demolished to make way for the final design. From the beginning, the rail line and the commercial wharf required that land be reclaimed along the Tagus River.[4]At the inauguration of the first link of the Caminho de Ferro do Leste (Eastern line), between Carregado and Lisboa, on 28 September 1856, the construction of the station had not already begun.[3] In the meantime, the terminal was installed in the provisionary building along the Pal\u00e1cio de Coimbra (Palace of Coimbra).[5]The project was designed by Angel Arribas Ugarte, and directed by director Jo\u00e3o Evangelista de Abreu, and his chief engineer Lecrenier, and constructed by the company Oppermann.[6][7][3] The station was inaugurated on 1 May 1865, with the first line to the station beginning operation in 1873, to connect Santa Apol\u00f3nia to Santos.[6][8]Between 1891 and 1957 most passenger services at Santa Apol\u00f3nia moved to Rossio Train Station, then referred to as the Central Station. Santa Apolonia became one of several land transport hubs, that included Gare do Oriente, situated 6.5 kilometres (4.0\u00a0mi) southwest, Cais do Sodr\u00e9, Rossio and Entrecampos.From the 20th century, the national rail service Comboios de Portugal has operated different suburban, national and international routes (including links to Paris and Madrid, including the high-speed Alfa Pendular service. Santa Apol\u00f3nia rail station is connected to the Lisbon Metro station of the same name, which opened in 2007.In January 2011, there were six means of transit, between 250\u2013355 metres (820\u20131,165\u00a0ft) length; the platforms were between 172\u2013348 metres (564\u20131,142\u00a0ft), and a height of 60\u201370 centimetres (24\u201328\u00a0in).[9]Architecture[edit]The station is situated along the northern margin of the Tagus River, in the Alfama district of Lisbon, integrated into the urban zone, along the Rua Caminhos de Ferro. Fronted by Rua Texeira Lopes, the three-register “U”-shaped building includes a short facade and long parallel wings extending around the rail platforms.The principal symmetrical facade consists of a three-register Neoclassical, divided into five unequal veins. The first floor is dominated by five large rounded doorways, in addition to a lateral doorways on opposite ends of the facade, with rounded windows interspersed between the porticos.[7] On the second floor are rounded windows, with the central and lateral windows much larger and with lintels. On the final floor includes a triangular pediment dominated by a clock.[7] Similarly, the central and lateral vains include rounded windows, interlaced by square windows.[7]The main part of the building is dominated by a great nave, approximately 117 metres (384\u00a0ft) long, 24.6 metres (81\u00a0ft) wide and 13 metres (43\u00a0ft) tall, consisting of a lattice of wrought iron and glass, typical of the 19th century.Services[edit]References[edit]Notes[edit]^ a b Jo\u00e3o Martins, Miguel Sousa & Madalena Brion (1996), p.11^ Jo\u00e3o Martins, Miguel Sousa & Madalena Brion (1996), p.26^ a b c Machado, Jo\u00e3o (2005),  SIPA (ed.), Esta\u00e7\u00e3o do Cais dos Soldados\/Esta\u00e7\u00e3o Ferrovi\u00e1ria de Santa Apol\u00f3nia (IPA.00023182\/PT031106291099) (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal: SIPA \u2013Sistema de Informa\u00e7\u00e3o para o Patrim\u00f3nio Arquitect\u00f3nico, retrieved 14 February 2016^ Jo\u00e3o Martins, Miguel Sousa & Madalena Brion (1996), p.27^ Jo\u00e3o Martins, Miguel Sousa & Madalena Brion (1996), p.15^ a b Jos\u00e9 Santos (1998), p. 328^ a b c d Nunes, Bruna; Mascoli, Diana; Henriques, Rodrigo (1 February 2009), Esta\u00e7\u00e3o de Santa Apol\u00f3nia (in Portuguese), Blog Arquitectura do Ferro, retrieved 12 February 2010^ Jo\u00e3o Martins, Miguel Sousa & Madalena Brion (1996), p.29^ Rede Ferrovi\u00e1ria Nacional (6 January 2011), p.73^ “Sud Expresso e Lusit\u00e2nia Expresso passam a comboio \u00fanico a partir de 3 de Outubro”. P\u00fablico (in Portuguese). 2012-09-28. Retrieved 2020-05-26.Sources[edit]Almeida, D. Fernando de (1975), Monumentos e Edif\u00edcios Not\u00e1veis do Distrito de Lisboa, Lisboa – Tomo II (in Portuguese), Lisbon, PortugalArquitectura de Engenheiros – s\u00e9culos XIX e XX (in Portuguese), Lisbon, Portugal: Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Calouste Gulbenkian, 1980Santos, Jos\u00e9 (1989), O Pal\u00e1cio de Cristal e Arquitectura de Ferro no Porto em Meados do S\u00e9culo XIX (in Portuguese), Porto, Portugal: Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Engenheiro Ant\u00f3nio de Almeida, p.\u00a0387Martins, Jo\u00e3o; Sousa, Miguel de; Brion, Madalena (1996), O Caminho de Ferro Revisitado: O Caminho de Ferro em Portugal de 1856 a 1996 (in Portuguese), Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki14\/santa-apolonia-railway-station-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Santa Apol\u00f3nia railway station – Wikipedia"}}]}]