CP Urban Services


The CP Urban Services network is the commuter train network of Metropolitan Lisbon and Metropolitan Porto, Portugal. It connects the city centers with the suburbs.

Metropolitan Lisbon Network

The system is complemented in Lisbon by the Lisbon Metro and an extensive bus network.
and Lisbon Metro lines
It comprises four lines which served 87 million passengers in 2018.
Although the Cintura line connects the Azambuja line to the Cascais line, the stretch between Alcântara-Terra and Alcântara-Mar is only used for freight services, and passengers transferring between both stations have to do so on foot.
Nowadays, the services from the Azambuja and Sintra lines are joined in a single timetable, as "Azambuja/Lisboa/Sintra".
Since 2011, the Azambuja line has offered a direct connection between Azambuja and Alcântara-Terra, with an additional Castanheira–Santa Apolónia service during weekdays, a change that will be reversed with the Summer 2015 timetables, that reintroduce the older Azambuja–Santa Apolónia and Castanheira–Alcântara-Terra services.

Metropolitan Porto network

The CP Urban Services in the great Porto area consists of 4 main lines, linking Porto Terminus São Bento Station in Porto Downtown with the cities of Braga, Guimarães, Aveiro and Penafiel. The lines are completely electrified and the service is efficient, serving over 21 million passengers in 2018.
The Commuter rail service in Porto is well connected with bus and metro service in the city, linking with lines A, B, C, E and F of metro service in Campanhã Station and with line D in São Bento Station.
A fifth line was inaugurated on September 2009, Leixões line, connecting Porto to Leixões. This line closed again in 2011.
In 2018, a study was launched into a new 36.5 km rail line branching from Valongo on the Linha de Caide to Felgueiras, with an expectedly cost of €300 million.

Metropolitan Coimbra network

Since the closure by Comboios de Portugal of the lines from Coimbra to Lousã – Miranda do Corvo, in 2004, and Coimbra to Figueira da Foz via Cantanhede in 2011, the Urbanos Coimbra service now only consists of the Baixo Mondego corridor, from Coimbra to Figueira da Foz via Montemor-o-Velho.