Praia das Maçãs
Wide Atlantic sandy beach at a river mouth, reached by a vintage electric tram through farmland.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Praia das Maçãs, on the Atlantic coast below Sintra, is about how a railway came to end on a beach. It starts with an eighteen-nineties plan for a steam line down from the hills and follows the company that changed course and ordered its cars from Philadelphia. Along the way you'll hear about the single metre-gauge track and the copper overhead wire that have kept it running. Best heard on the sand near the river mouth.
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