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Portuguese commuter transport companies

Portuguese railways
Lisbon bus company flags
Lisbon subway company flags
Transtejo — Grater Lisbon ferries company flags

See also:

Portuguese railways
Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses; CP

image by António Martins, 22 Oct 2002

Portuguese Railway Company: green logo ("CP"-digraph) on white background; two dark grey stripes on the upper and bottom edges. Local observation; other versions already reported.
António Martins, 22 Oct 2002

Lisbon bus company
Companhia dos Carris de Ferro de Lisboa; “Carris”; CCFL

bus rooftop flag

image by António Martins, 14 Jun 2004

In Lisbon buses and tramways do not usually carry flags, apart from one or two turism street cars. However, recently the Lisbon urban transport company (Companhia dos Carris de Ferro de Lisboa) celebrated its 150th anniversary and all the buses were decorated with a pair of small crossed flags on the front roof. These were: the “civil” municipal flag, white over black gyronny, no arms, and the company’s logo flag, two large rings, white and blue, on yellow.
António Martins, 15 Apr 1998

This flag has been in intermittent usage in some special holidays and seasons, crossed sometimes with the municpal flag (always without the arms) and others with the national flag.
António Martins, 12 Jun 2004

Apparently, the thickness of each ring is identical to the distance beween the flag edge on top and bottom and the logo. The overall ratio seems to be 2:3, matching the national flag.
António Martins, 14 Jun 2004

Official company flag

image by António Martins, 12 Jun 2004

The official company flag, hoisted at the company facilities, includes the lettering and a much smaller logo, a motive for our vexillological sorrow.
António Martins, 12 Jun 2004

Previous flag (orange)

image by António Martins, 30 Jul 1999

The flag with the previous logo on a bright orange background is apparently still flying atop the Santa Justa Elevator (a commuter facility in Lisbon that works like a normal vertical lift, unlike the other three Lisbon “elevators”, which are funiculars — was built in the late 19th. cent. by the same team that designed the Eiffel tower in Paris). I supposed it out of use after the new logo was used, since 1997 (by then new buses were recolored yellow instead of the previous orange).
António Martins, 30 Jul 1999

Previous flag (white)

image by António Martins, 30 Jul 1999

Logo on white background was an often vatiation.
António Martins, 30 Jul 1999

Lisbon subway company
Metropolitano de Lisboa; “Metro”

image by António Martins, 15 Apr 1998

Lisbon’s subway company flag is an unusual logo-on-white-background type of flag, with the logo on the hoist, instead of centered. This logo (like it’s predecessor) shows the letter "M" (for "metro", shortform of "[comboio] metropolitano", "subway") on a stylized tunnel section view.
António Martins, 15 Apr 1998 and 18 Oct 2001

Transtejo — Grater Lisbon ferries company flags

image by António Martins, 14 May 2004

Transtejo operates passenger ferries across the Tagus estuary, between Lisbon and the left bank (Almada, Montijo and Seixal); it also sails tourist cruises in the Tagus mouth and neighbouring ocean, and owns Soflusa, previously a railroad ferry line (Lisbon - Barreiro).
António Martins, 14 May 2004

Last Sunday I saw the company houseflag for the first time after many years using its services. It was hoisted in the peak of the vessel S. Paulus (moored), nowdays used only for tourist cruises. The company houseflag is dark green with the company logo in orange at the upper hoist. I never saw any flag in Transtejo ships before this time — neither the houseflag nor the national ensign, neither in Sundays nor in workdays.
António Martins, 14 May 2004