Latour-de-Carol train station - Enveitg
| Latour-de-Carol train station - Enveitg | |
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 An AGC in front of the station building
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| Location in the network | Connecting station |
| Platform tracks | 4th |
| IBNR | 8700148 |
| opening | 1928 |
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| City / municipality | Enveitg |
| Department | Pyrénées-Orientales department |
| region | Occitania |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 27 '33 " N , 1 ° 54' 15" E |
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| List of train stations in France | |
The Latour-de-Carol train station - Enveitg is a border station in the French Pyrenees on the border with Spain . At the same time, it represents the connection of three railway lines with different gauges and power systems. It is the only one in the world in which the gauges 1668, 1435 and 1000 millimeters meet.
location
The station is located at 1,283 meters above sea level in the municipalities Latour-de-Carol and Enveitg the department Pyrénées-Orientales in the region Occitania .
history
The Spanish line from Puigcerdà to Latour-de-Carol was opened on June 5, 1928, the French from Ax-les-Thermes on July 22, 1929. The narrow-gauge Ligne de Cerdagne also reached the place on July 22, 1929. The extensive The freight yard is currently no longer used.
description
Three railway lines end in the station. The French cross-border railway line Portet-Saint-Simon-Puigcerdà is interrupted shortly before the former end point Puigcerdà , the trains end in Latour-de-Carol. The steep mountain route coming from the Garonne valley is standard-lane , single-track and electrified with 1500 volts direct current by means of a contact wire . Platform 1, where trains usually end, is the longest covered platform in France.
From Puigcerdà comes a double-track line, with the eastern track having the European standard gauge, the western one the Iberian broad gauge . The regular-gauge track is no longer used, traffic to and from Spain is carried out exclusively with Renfe broad-gauge vehicles . These trains end at the former border clearing island platform 2. The broad-gauge track is electrified with contact wire and a DC voltage of 3000 volts.
At the southern end of platform 1, on its north side, the narrow-gauge trains of the Ligne de Cerdagne end . The trains coming from Villefranche-de-Conflent run on meter gauge tracks and receive their direct current of 850 volts from a busbar attached to the side . A direct transfer to and from the trains in the direction of Portet-Saint-Simon is possible via platform 1.
traffic
Regional trains run to and from Toulouse on the route to Portet-Saint-Simon .
There is a daily direct night train connection to and from Paris in the Intercités network of the SNCF (as of January 2020). This train, which requires a reservation, carries couchette cars and open seating cars with reclining chairs.
The narrow-gauge railway, which runs on the Ligne de Cerdagne and is also known as Train jaune (yellow train), provides a direct connection to Perpignan via the Perpignan – Villefranche-de-Conflent railway at Villefranche - Vernet-les-Bains station .
Individual trains on the R3 line of the Catalan regional transport network Rodalies de Catalunya connect Latour-de-Carol with Barcelona-Sants station , the main train station of the city of Barcelona . You are driving the route from Puigcerdà .
gallery
French BB 8500 next to the Spanish class 1000 and RENFE class 438 railcars in Latour-de-Carol, 1985
Railway station with standard French gauge train, in the foreground a broad gauge track, 1998
Narrow-gauge train with summer wagons, in the foreground the transfer platform to the standard gauge, 2002
Platform 1 - the narrow-gauge railway on the left, a Spanish train on the right and a French train in the middle, 2006
Three railways, three gauges: Train jaune to Villefranche-de-Conflent , night train to Paris and S-Bahn to Barcelona, 2019
