The Estrada Ferro Recife ao São Francisco (EFRSF) or Recife and São Francisco Railway Company was a railway company.[1] Opened in 1858, it was the first railway built in Pernambuco and the second in Brazil.[2]
| EFRSF | |
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Main region(s) | Pernambuco |
| Headquarters | Recife, Brazil |
| Dates of operation | 1852–1901 |
| Successor | Great Western of Brazil Railway |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 1,600 m |
| Length | 124 km |
The initial section went from Cinco Pontas in Recife to Cabo, in the state of Pernambuco, over a length of 31.5 kilometers, on a broad gauge (1.60 meters).[3]
In 1901, the Great Western of Brasil Railway Company, an English company, acquired the concession from EFRSF and other rail companies operating in Pernambuco.[4]
Notes
edit- ^ Benigno 2021, p. 1.
- ^ Cardoso 2018, p. 14.
- ^ Goethe, Paulo (2016-01-18). "O trem maluco quando sai de Pernambuco…". Diário de Pernambuco. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
- ^ Cardoso 2018, p. 30.
References
edit- Benigno, Scott (1 October 2021). "The Economics of Empires: An Analysis of British Railway Investments in 1850s Imperial Brazil". Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History. 11 (2). Georgia Southern University. doi:10.20429/aujh.2021.110210. ISSN 2163-8551.
- Cardoso, André L. R. (2018). Trens de subúrbio nas rotas de exportação: Uma dinâmica urbana para as ferrovias pernambucanas de longa distância (1858 – 1900) (PDF) (Graduate thesis) (in Portuguese). Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco.
External links
edit- De Mornay, Edward (1855). Report on the proposed railway in the province of Pernambuco, Brazil (Report).
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