On the Trails of the Lost Station: Jamor's Railway Memory

The station building was designed by architect Miguel Jacobetty, who signed most of the projects for the buildings in the first phase of the construction of the National Stadium, as well as several unrealized projects.

… by bicycle (there was an enclosure to accommodate 1000), or by rail via Cruz Quebrada station. The branch, as well as the Stadium station, were not yet completed. It is estimated that 20,000 people used the train.

In September 1946, the passenger building was still not completed…

… but the extension already facilitated access to the Stadium on events days.

The access tunnel, where the train passed, under the waterfront road.

This public service runned since the end of the 1940s, progressively decreasing its activity in the late 1970s, until it became completely inoperative.

During the World Cross Country Championship on March 24, 1985, in which Carlos Lopes became three-time champion, the branch was sabotaged with rocks and embankments. This act of "pure vandalism" canceled most of the special trains to Vale do Jamor.

In April 1985, it was necessary to reconvert the use of the branch area to implement the new planning of the General Plan for the Jamor Sports Complex. All of its fixed facilities are definitively removed from public service and linked to the Stadium Management Committee.

The station building, including its emblematic tower, will only be demolished in the second half of the 1990s.

The old station gives way to the Swimming Pool Complex, opened on July 22, 1998. It was the first covered facility in Portugal capable of hosting national and international competitions in any Swimming discipline.