“Estação Nova” will close on Saturday, the 12th, due to works related to Metrobus. Mondego Metro will have buses.
A Station Railway of Coimbra will be closed from the day 12 (Saturday) so that they can continue works rail channel conversion solution metrobus, informed Metro Mondego today.
In a statement sent to the Lusa agency, Metro Mondego indicated that the suppression of connections to Coimbra Station will occur right after the departure of the train that leaves at 00:20 on the 12th.
“With the construction of the Mondego Mobility System it will be definitively deactivated the railway connection between Coimbra B and Coimbra stations (also known as New Station)”, he added.
It adds that trains that started or ended their journey at Coimbra station now have their origin/destination at the Coimbra station. Coimbra-B.
From that day onwards and until the section of the Mondego Mobility System comes into operation, which will connect the Toll Station to Coimbra B, Metro Mondego will ensure a road transfer between the two stations.
“This system, which will be free for CP passengers, there will be a stop close to each stationin places that will be properly signposted”.
According to Metro Mondego, buses who will provide this service will be duly identified and there will be support staff to ensure the routing of passengers.
“The expected frequency is 12 buses per hour, during peak periods, decreasing slightly outside these periodsensuring connection to all trains that currently arrive (or depart) from Coimbra Station and which will end at Coimbra B station”.
The works on this section of the Mondego Mobility System, under the responsibility of Infraestruturas de Portugal, “should be completed within end of 2025allowing the metrobus make, from that date, the connection between the Toll e Coimbra B”.
That is, the Coimbra station should not reopenat least for trains.
