The Leixões line has already attracted more than 50,000 passengers

More and more passengers are travelling on the Leixões Line since the service was reopened on 9 February 2025. Almost 51,000 people have used this line that connects Ovar and Leça do Balio stations via Porto Campanhã.

Of the 50,844 ticket validations, the new São João Hospital station has the highest demand (not considering Campanhã), with over 7,000 validations. The data also shows that the peak daily demand in this first month was close to 2,500 validations per working day. The most used tickets on this line are intermodal tickets.

‘CP has always believed that this line would be successful, as long as the two new stations, at the Hospital de São João and Arroteia, were intermodal connections,’ according to the Chair of CP's Board of Directors, Pedro Moreira, reiterating that he believes demand would exceed expectations in the first year.

Campaign offers free vouchers

CP is offering vouchers for free journeys on the Leixões line on 22 and 23 March

to encourage demand for this line.

The vouchers will be distributed in different places and at different times: at Porto-Campanhã Station, on 17 March, from 6.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and on 21, 22 and 23 March, from 6.30 a.m to 6.30 p.m. and at the Leixões line,'s Contumil, São Gemil, Hospital São João, São Mamede de Infesta, Arroteia and Leça do Balio stations on 22 and 23 March, from 6.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.

The vouchers, which serve as a ticket, arevalid for one outward and one return journey, for journeys to be made on 22 and 23 March 2025, and can be used on any train on the Leixões Line, on the Porto - Campanhã < > Leça do Balio route.

60 trains a day

Passenger train services on the Leixões Line have resumed thanks to a protocol between CP, the Matosinhos City Council and Infraestruturas de Portugal.

The new service on the Leixões Line offers 60 trains on weekdays, 30 in each direction, with two trains and hour each way during the morning and afternoon rush hours. On Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, there are 34 trains, 17 each way.

This connection allows direct trains between Ovar and Leça do Balio, without having to change at Porto, and trains between Porto and Leça do Balio. Trains stopsat Contumil, São Gemil, Hospital de São João, São Mamede de Infesta, Arroteia and Leça do Balio.

More information and train times available at www.cp.pt.