Equipment and workers are missing for the maintenance of trains – Observer

The CP – Comboios de Portugal is on the brink of rupture: the lack of cars to move and the staff responsible for the maintenance and repair of trains will force the company to reconfigure the service that It makes it available to users.

The alternative found by the company to address the difficulties had two solutions: remove trains and put buses to make the affected roads or make cars available from

The shortage of means affects is widespread: the connections to Évora, Braga, Guimarães, but also in the Algarve, Alentejo or in the line of the West were deletions of trips for lack of trains for circular. In some cases, writes Público, passengers are dropped off at the train stations and stop waiting for alternative solutions to reach the destination, but they are not available.

On the Sintra line, one of the national airports more passengers, also began to be affected. There are trains that, at dawn, do not show up to plan the trip.

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