The tiles arrived before the train
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The station can also be read through its walls.
Includes an activity to try →Explore: A station, different spaces →Read here and view sources
The station’s tile panels were made in 1940 by A. Lopes at the Fábrica de Cerâmica Sant’Anna in Lisbon, according to the publication about the Museu das Terras de Basto. They predate the station’s opening in 1949.
The station comprised spaces with distinct functions. The publication identifies the drivers’ house, staff building, loading and unloading platform and goods warehouse. The two vehicle sheds came to house permanent exhibitions of railway equipment; the warehouse is described as a temporary exhibition space.
Reading the building can begin with these differences: where did people work, where did goods pass and where were vehicles kept? The tiles belong to that built landscape. The description documents the museum arrangement presented in the publication, without confirming each space’s exhibition or access today.
Source and context
Municipality — Land Museum of Basto: a journey through the history of the region, pp. 28–29
Municipality — Núcleo Ferroviário de Arco de Baúlhe
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