The work carried out also provides an “improvement in access conditions to trains for people with reduced mobility”, highlighted Infraestruturas de Portugal in a statement, stating that the investment cost more than five million euros.

“Infraestruturas has completed the work to raise the passenger platforms at the stations on the Algarve Line”, reported IP, clarifying that the interventions carried out ensured the “standardisation of the elevation of the platforms at the stations” of trains that serve the route between Lagos and Vila Real de Santo António.

IP highlighted that “several improvements were also made for users of public rail transport” in the Faro district, who now have better “comfort and safety conditions at stations”.

Passengers will find “important improvements in terms of shelters, street furniture and public lighting”, the company indicated, highlighting that “the fences were reinforced and repaired and bilingual guidance signs were renewed”, in Portuguese and English.

“The work was carried out in phases, in order to minimize the impact on service levels, with a total of 17 stations and stops being worked on”, said Infraestruturas de Portugal, noting that the intervention “involved an investment of over five million euros”.

The company also said that the works now completed “were developed within the scope of IP’s strategy of investing in improving comfort, mobility and safety conditions at the stations that are part of the National Railway Network”.