Giugiaro
Member
CP - Comboios de Portugal has gone through a lot of changes over the past year.
President Carlos Gomes Nogueira has been replaced by Nuno Freitas, managing director of Nomad Tech and a railway enthusiast member of APAC - Associação Portuguesa de Amigos do Caminho de Ferro.
It has been made public that the old CP 1200 diesel locomotives, built by Brissonneau & Lotz and Sorefame in the 1960's, will be making a comeback as shunter locomotives.
The plan for these SNCF BB63000 clones is to release more working English Electric CP 1400 from their current shunting assignments to become available for Regional and InterRegional services in the North of Portugal, shifting the Spanish 592 DMU's down to the Oeste line, and the Portuguese CP 0450 DMU's down to Alentejo and Algarve.
Old second generation Sorefame passenger cars will also be refurbished as general purpose cars to be used on InterCity, Regional and InterRegional services, and the first prototype should be presented and tested later this year or earlier next year.
CP 1200 Class 1208 - Tunes, Portugal by David Burrell, no Flickr
President Carlos Gomes Nogueira has been replaced by Nuno Freitas, managing director of Nomad Tech and a railway enthusiast member of APAC - Associação Portuguesa de Amigos do Caminho de Ferro.
It has been made public that the old CP 1200 diesel locomotives, built by Brissonneau & Lotz and Sorefame in the 1960's, will be making a comeback as shunter locomotives.
The plan for these SNCF BB63000 clones is to release more working English Electric CP 1400 from their current shunting assignments to become available for Regional and InterRegional services in the North of Portugal, shifting the Spanish 592 DMU's down to the Oeste line, and the Portuguese CP 0450 DMU's down to Alentejo and Algarve.
Old second generation Sorefame passenger cars will also be refurbished as general purpose cars to be used on InterCity, Regional and InterRegional services, and the first prototype should be presented and tested later this year or earlier next year.
CP 1200 Class 1208 - Tunes, Portugal by David Burrell, no Flickr