Train from Lisbon to Cascais

For the most recent info, see the post Festival Info for Getting from Lisbon to Cascais

You may have seen this on the Festival Travel Info webpage: "Trains from Lisbon’s Cais do Sodré (Metro: Cais do Sodré) run to Cascais along the scenic coastal line via Estoril. Trains leave twice an hour and stop at Estoril, Estoril Monte and Cascais." The Festival team is working to add more information about this.

 

Because some information, such as the price of tickets, on the definitive website of the train can be so hard to find, even though in some ways the English version of the site is useful (see For More Information below), I am trusting that this information is correct until we get more information:

The short answer, based on http://wikitravel.org/en/Cascais

"Cascais is easily reachable from Lisbon  by train (40min), from the Cais do Sodré station. A return ticket costs 2.30€ and can be bought from the automatic ticket machines. Remember to keep the ticket as it will be checked and punched by the conductor in both directions."

The English call a round-trip ticket a "return," so that's cheap (about $3)! That page was last updated in August; it looks like the price has gone up 20 cents.

For More Information
Lisbon-> Cascais Train Schedule - helpfully added to the Festival Travel Info webpage from the Portugal train website; much easier to find! With a helpful diagram of the route with stops.

Portugal Train Website in English - the site is well organized, but when you follow the links, you end up at pages like this:

• Price of tickets, which are only in Portuguese, as far as I can tell.
• For the NetTicket feature on the main page, click Timetable and Prices (I didn't find the Lisboa - Cais do Sodré  or Cascais stations in the drop-down list of the default tab), but the results say that it's a 3-hour trip, when everywhere else I've read said it's 40 minutes?? The price for a "poupou" (which even my linguist friend couldn't find a relevant translation of, but in context I take this for at least a regular adult one-way ticket, if not a round-trip) is 2.50 euros.

No wonder it's taking the Festival team a while to provide the details!