Signals controlled train movements at stations with passing loops and this one controlled the approach to Romeu station from the Mirandela direction. It is in the stop position with the red disc facing oncoming trains, when cleared it was turned so that the the disc was edge on.
Photo Tony Bowles

The Tua line was built in two sections with the extension from Mirandela to Bragança opening nearly 20 years after the first section. Although Bragança was the largest centre of population on the whole line, the extension never ran at a profit, so once freight services had been withdrawn and road facilities improved its fate was sealed. Services were withdrawn in September 1991 and apart from the short section through the Mirandela suburbs to Carvalhais run as as urban transit system, the infrastructure elsewhere has been removed or is quietly rusting away - Bragança station now serves buses instead of trains.

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