Wife and I will be making our first trip to Portugal 9/30 to 10/8/23 plan on spending 4 nights in Lisbon and 4 nights in Porto with day trips from both cities planned. Planning on taking the train from Lisbon to Porto. Is it worth making a stop in Coimbra by taking early morning train from Lisbon and late evening train from Coimbra to Porto. If we do make a stop where could we store our luggage for the day? I know we could spend the night but I hate one night hotel stays.
Posted by
near San Francisco
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The Portugal train station website indicates there are coin operated luggage lockers at the Coimbra train station:
https://www.cp.pt/passageiros/en/how-to-travel/Useful-information/luggage-lockers
The Coimbra train station (Coimbra aka Coimbra-A, not Coimbra-B) is an easy and flat 400m walk from the town center.
Posted by
Seattle, WA, USA
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Not to highjack this thread, but Catherine, will you explain to me the difference between Coimbra-A and Coimbra-B train stations? I’m just now doing a little transportation research for Coimbra. I’ll be traveling Lisbon to Coimbra and then Coimbra to Porto by train. Hotel in Lisbon is near Rossio and hotel in Coimbra is on Rua Ferreira Borges. Thanks for any info
Posted by
near San Francisco
4618 posts
The simple answer is that they are just 2 different train stations serving Coimbra.
Rick refers to Coimbra-B a the Big station, as I recall, as a way to remember. The high speed, regional trains go in and out of Coimbra-B, such as the trains from Lisbon to Porto.
Coimbra-A is a smaller station serving all other trains, including local.
If you're coming from Lisbon on a high speed train, you'll arrive into Coimbra-B and then transfer to a local train to Coimbra-A near the city center.
Going from Coimbra to Porto, you'll do the reverse.