Steam Locomotive CP 070

Locomotive CP 070 is an example of construction in Portugal. Manufactured by the General Workshops of Lisbon of the Companhia dos Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses in Lisbon-Santa Apolónia in 1944, it was based on locomotives with the same characteristics and successive numbering, built by the Swiss factory Winterthur and the German firm Henschel, between 1916 and 1929. For its construction, a reserve boiler was re-used and the remaining parts manufactured locally. As it is a tank locomotive and due to the wheel arrangement, it could operate easily in both directions. It undertook all kinds of duties, from passenger trains to goods services, both in the Porto and Lisbon suburban areas and on the North and West Lines.
With the arrival of diesel locomotives in the 1950s and with electrification of the Sintra line - and, gradually, the North line - these locomotives were withdrawn completely by 1977.