Touristic Express

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The Touristic Express (Brazilian Portuguese: Expresso Turístico) is a service of the Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos, a tourist train that makes trips between Luz Station, in São Paulo, and Paranapiacaba, Mogi das Cruzes and Jundiaí, with the objective of showing and disseminating the history of railroads and trains, which boosted the capital and the cities that are part of the São Paulo railway network.[1][2]

StatusOperational
OwnerGovernment of the State of São Paulo
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Touristic Express
Overview
StatusOperational
OwnerGovernment of the State of São Paulo
LocaleGreater São Paulo, Brazil
Termini
Stations5
Service
TypeCommuter rail/Heritage railway
SystemSão Paulo Metropolitan Trains
Services3
Operator(s) CPTM
Ridership13,175 passengers (2018)
History
Opened18 April 2009; 16 years ago (2009-04-18)
Technical
Line length170 km (110 mi)
CharacterAt-grade
Track gauge1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
Electrification3,000 V DC catenary
Operating speed90 km/h (56 mph)
SignallingAutomatic block signaling
Route map

Jundiaí
Luz
Line 1 (São Paulo Metro)Line 4 (São Paulo Metro)
Pref. Celso Daniel-Santo Andr
Mogi das Cruzes
Paranapiacaba
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    Characteristics

    The express forms a large tourist network along the CPTM lines, connecting the capital of São Paulo and the historic district of Paranapiacaba, in the Serra do Mar, in Santo André; with the Fruit Circuit in the interior of São Paulo, from the municipality of Jundiaí; and with the Flower Circuit in the municipality of Mogi das Cruzes.[3]

    The route is covered by ALCO RS-3 (6001 and 6004) and GE U20C (3157 and 3159) diesel-electric locomotives from CPTM, with custom paint and traveling at about 40 kilometers per hour. These drive BuddMafersa 800 [pt] stainless steel passenger cars for long distances, with a capacity of 88 and 87 people (PI 3253 and SI 3255), manufactured in 1962. The route to Mogi das Cruzes also has a bike rack with 45 positions.

    These cars were provided by the National Department of Transport Infrastructure and belonged to the former EFA [pt] and Fepasa. Currently, two more passenger cars (SI 3254 and SI 3259) are under renovation to join the Express.[4]

    Expresso Turístico at Luz Station

    Passengers carried

    From its creation until 2018, the Tourist Express transported more than 140 thousand passengers. However, the number of passengers is falling, as part of the tourism sector affected by the political-economic crisis in Brazil from 2014 to 2018:[5][6]

    Year Passengers Travel
    2009 10,000[7] 234[8]
    2010 15,000[9]
    2011 12,000[8]
    2012 17,000 104[10]
    2013 15,000 102
    2014 15,000
    2015 15,000
    2016 14,000
    2017 15,000 101
    2018 13,000 99
    2019 Not disclosed Not disclosed

    Proposed routes

    There were plans for four more new tourist routes, including one route connecting Luz to the city of São Roque, where there is the Wine Route (Portuguese: Roteiro do Vinho), and three others lasting a weekend:

    However, these projects depend on the authorization of ANTT, in addition to Rumo Logística (Luz/São Roque Section) and MRS Logística (Luz/Aparecida Section).[11] However, none of these routes got off the ground.

    Currently, CPTM is studying the concession of the Touristic Express to the private sector.[12]

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