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GC48C56- Estação Ferroviária de Barca da Amieira-Envendos
The Barca da Amieira's Railway Station, in Envendos, originally known as Barca d'Amieira, is a railway interface of the Beira Baixa Line, which serves the Parish of Envendos, in the District of Santarém, Portugal.
This interface is located near the locality of Barca da Amieira
In 2004, this interface was classified as a Station, and it had two traffic lanes.
In January 2011, it still had two traffic lanes, both 466 metres long; the platforms were both 150 metres long and 70 centimetres high.
This interface is located in the section between Abrantes and Covilhã on the Beira Baixa Track, and it began to be built at the end of 1885, and it went into operation on 6 September 1891.
In 1932, works occured in order to improve the water supply and, in 1934, a project to extend this station was approved.
In a decree published in the Government Gazette no. 240, Series II, at the 15th October 1949, the Ministry of Communications approved the process of expropriation of two plots of land between kilometres 41,173.94 and 41,223.94, for the construction of housing for staff, at Barca de Amieira station.