Recife Metro

The Recife Metro (Portuguese: Metrô do Recife, commonly called Metrô) is the rapid transit system for the city of Recife in Brazil. It is operated by CBTU/Metrorec and currently serves 29 stations, along 39.5 kilometers (24.5 mi).[1]

Recife Metro

Overview
Native name	Metrô do Recife
Locale	Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Transit type	Rapid transit
Number of lines	3 (plus one light rail line)
Number of stations	29[1]
Daily ridership	225,000 (Metro only)[1]
Website	CBTU-STU Recife
Operation
Began operation	11 March 1985 (1985-03-11)
Operator(s)	Superintendência de Trens Urbanos de Recife
Number of vehicles	40[1]
Train length	4 cars[1]
Headway	4.75–7 minutes (Center Line)[1] 16 minutes (South Line)[1]
Technical
System length	39.5 km (24.5 mi)[1]
Track gauge	1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)[1]
System map Map of the network, including the light rail line. At the time of the map, Cosme e Damião station was still under construction.

Characteristics

The system formed by the Central Line (itself divided into two lines) and the South Line.

The stations were designed carefully to include various forms of identification. Besides the service of audio messages announcing the name of the stop, there is a different colour used on the walls of every station, and signs are equipped with graphical symbols next to the name that always accompany the maps spread in the buildings.

Trains of the Central Line leaving the station Recife have two distinct destinations: the cities of Camaragibe and Jaboatão dos Guararapes. That is because Center-1 (Camaragibe) and Center-2 (Jaboatão) Lines share the part of the railway between Recife and Coqueiral stations, reusing the route of an old railway track, where the metro system was built.

The average distance between stations is of 1.2 kilometers (0.7 mi) so the typical speed of the train is 40 km/h (25 mph), but the maximum speed is 90 km/h (56 mph).[1] The gauge is 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) (Irish gauge) and energy supply for trains is done through aerial catenary.[1]

The system originally had a total of 25.2 kilometers (15.7 mi) of route. After completion of the expansion of the network that occurred from February 2005 to March 2009, the metro grew to its current 39.5 kilometers (24.5 mi) in length.[1]

There is also a 31.5-kilometer (19.6 mi) meter gauge (1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in)) diesel light rail line in Recife.[1] The system also includes several bus lines linked from the terminals of bus/metro integration designated S.E.I (Sistema Estrutural Integrado - Integrated Structural System) through which passengers may continue their travel on the same ticket.[2]

Lines

Metro

Line	Terminals	Start date	Length	Stations	Duration (min)	Schedule
Center - 1	Recife ↔ Camaragibe	11 March 1985	---	15	28	Daily, 5 AM to 11 PM
Center - 2	Recife ↔ Jaboatão	29 August 1987	---	14	24	Daily, 5 AM to 11 PM
South	Recife ↔ Cajueiro Seco	28 February 2005	14.3 km	13	25[3]	Daily, 5 AM to 11 PM
Total (C1+C2+S)			39.5 km[1]	29[1]	---	---

Light rail

In addition, Recife metropolitan area also has meter gauge[1] (1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in)) diesel light rail line:

Line	Terminals	Start date	Length	Stations	Duration (min)	Schedule
Diesel light rail*	Cabo ↔ Cajueiro Seco; Cajueiro Seco ↔ Curado	2012	31.5 km[1]	8[1]	54	Monday to Saturday, 5 AM to 8 PM

(*) The light rail train is not included in the metro service, but it under the same administrative company.

Stations

Recife Metro
Central Line - C1 & C2 South Line - S Recife Joana Bezerra Afogados Largo da Paz Ipiranga Imbiribeira Mangueira Antonio Falcão Santa Luzia Recife Shopping Center Edgar Werneck Tancredo Neves Barro Aeroporto Tejipió Porta Larga Coqueiral Monte dos Guararapes Prazeres Cajueiro Seco Alto do Céu Curado Cavaleiro Rodoviária Coach Station Floriano Cosme e Damião Engenho Velho Camaragibe Jaboatão Central Line - C1 Central Line - C2
Legend
SEI Sistema Estrutural Integrado (Integrated Structural System) LRT Light Rail Transit Intercity bus Airport

Nº	Center - C1	Center - C2	South Line - S	Light Rail Train - LRT
1	Recife SEI	Recife SEI	Recife SEI	Curado C1
2	Joana Bezerra¹ SEI	Joana Bezerra¹ SEI	Joana Bezerra¹ SEI	Jorge Lins
3	Afogados SEI	Afogados SEI	Largo da Paz SEI	Marcos Freire
4	Ipiranga	Ipiranga	Imbiribeira	Cajueiro Seco SEI, S
5	Mangueira	Mangueira	Antonio Falcão	Ângelo de Souza
6	Santa Luzia SEI	Santa Luzia SEI	Shopping Center Recife	Pontezinha
7	Edgar Werneck	Edgar Werneck	Tancredo Neves SEI	Ponte dos Carvalhos
8	Barro SEI	Barro SEI	Aeroporto - Airport SEI	Santo Inácio
9	Tejipió	Tejipió	Porta Larga	Cabo SEI
10	Coqueiral²	Coqueiral²	Monte dos Guararapes
11	Alto do Céu	Cavaleiro SEI	Prazeres SEI
12	Curado LRT	Floriano	Cajueiro Seco SEI, LRT
13	Rodoviária-Coach station	Engenho Velho
14	Cosme e Damião	Jaboatão
15	Camaragibe SEI

Notes

• SEI: integration with local buses
• 1: C1, C2 and S run together as far as J. Bezerra
• 2: C1 and C2 run together as far as Coqueiral

See also

• List of metro systems
• Rapid transit in Brazil

References

1. "Características - Características Técnicas E Operacionais Do Metrô" [Characteristics - Technical and Operational Characteristics of Metro] (in Portuguese). CBTU-STU Recife. Archived from the original on 10 November 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2014.
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20080202123837/http://www.cbtu.gov.br/acbtu/acompanhia/sistemas/rec/recsist_cont.htm. Archived from the original on 2 February 2008. Retrieved 17 July 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. https://web.archive.org/web/20090715074450/http://www.cbtu.gov.br/operadoras/sites/menuprincrec.htm. Archived from the original on 15 July 2009. Retrieved 15 July 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• CBTU-STU Recife – official website (in Portuguese)
• Parent company CBTU's website; Contains links to other Brazilian urban rail systems
• The three Lines' (Centro, Sul & Diesel) map at the official site
• UP-TO-DATE Recife Metro System Map
• Photographic gallery for the Diesel line (pictures taken at a "photographical excursion" involving several photo artists at 19 August 2009)