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Cubatão (train station/Bahnhof), São Paulo (CSP-0410)

E. F. Central do Brasil, 1890

Cubatão station was opened in February 1867 by the São Paulo Railway (Main Line) on the south bank of the Cubatão in the Município de Santos, 70 km south of the provincial capital of São Paulo. The line was handed over to E.F. Santos a Jundiaí in 1946 and belonged to Rede Ferroviária Federal S.A. from 1975 until its closure in 1996 (estacoesferroviarias.com.br). Today, the tracks still exist and the station building houses the municipality’s tourist office.

Around 1920 (photo Cacilda Costa, on estacoesferroviarias.com.br)
In 2003 (photo Luiz Rafael de Souza, on estacoesferroviarias.com.br)

The area around the railway station became a district in December 1922 and the Município de Cubatão in December 1948.

As R. Koester writes in Carimbologia XV, there had been a post office at the station since February 1883, but no imperial postmark of Cubatão has been seen so far.

Estações (…) do Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo e Minas Geraes, 1880

Der Bahnhof Cubatão wurde im Februar 1867 von der Bahngesellschaft São Paulo Railway (Hauptlinie) eröffnet und lag am Südufer des Cubatão im Município de Santos, 70 km südlich der Provinzhauptstadt São Paulo. Die Strecke wurde 1946 an die E.F. Santos a Jundiaí übergeben und gehörte von 1975 bis zu ihrer Stilllegung 1996 der Rede Ferroviária Federal S.A. (estacoesferroviarias.com.br). Heute sind die Gleise noch vorhanden, das Bahnhofsgebäude beherbergt das Tourismusbüro der Gemeinde.

Um 1920 (Foto Cacilda Costa, auf estacoesferroviarias.com.br)
2003 (Foto Luiz Rafael de Souza, auf estacoesferroviarias.com.br)

Das Gebiet um den Bahnhof wurde im Dezember 1922 zum Distrikt und im Dezember 1948 zum Município de Cubatão.

Wie R. Koester in Carimbologia XV schreibt, gab es am Bahnhof seit Februar 1883 ein Postamt, aber bisher wurde kein kaiserlicher Poststempel von Cubatão gesehen.

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Brazilian-German philatelist who lives in Germany since 1981.

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