Portbou train station
| Portbou train station | |
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 Portbou with train stations
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Lane changing station |
| Platform tracks | 5 |
| IBNR | 7100079 |
| opening | 1878 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Portbou |
| province | Girona province |
| Autonomous community | Catalonia |
| Country | Spain |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 25 '29 " N , 3 ° 9' 28" E |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Spain | |
The Portbou Station (on Catalan Estacio de Portbou - even Port Bou or Port-Bou ) is the penultimate station of the cross-border railway line Barcelona-Cerbère in Spain . The station, which is located directly on the border, was the most important border station in the direction of France, alongside the Irun station, until the new Perpignan – Figueres line went into operation . The freight and marshalling yard is called Portbou Mercancías .
location
Portbou is located on the Catalan Mediterranean coast on the eastern edge of the foothills of the Pyrenees in the province of Girona . The passenger station is located on the western edge of the village, the freight station behind it was partially "built into" the mountain. The layout is similar to that of the neighboring French border station at Cerbère .
history
The station was built in 1878 by the Compañía de los ferrocarriles de Tarragona a Barcelona y Francia and taken over in 1929 by the Compañía de los Ferrocarriles de Madrid a Zaragoza y Alicante . In 1941 the line and the station were nationalized. It is the stop or end point for long-distance and regional trains of the Spanish Renfe as well as the terminus for trains of the French SNCF . The infrastructure operator has been the Gestor de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (GIF) since 1996 , and its successor has been the Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF) since 2005 .
description
The station, which is 30.8 meters high, has two different gauges, the Central European standard gauge and the Iberian broad gauge . The broad-gauge, double-track main line coming from Colera from a tunnel leads directly north of Portbou station on a single track through the double-track tunnel to the French border town of Cerbère . The second track is the standard gauge track from France ending in Portbou. The single-track tunnel tube located next to the line tunnel ends in the mountain, in it there is a wide - gauge pull-out track .
The passenger station building is located between the two standard and broad gauge tracks that end here, which continue to Cerbère. The standard gauge tracks are on the eastern side facing the town; they end in a tunnel to the south. Four of the broad-gauge platform tracks are located in the cantilevered station hall, a fifth to the west of it. To the south of the building is the former border clearance hall, into which tracks of both gauges lead from the south. Other tracks in the through station are used for freight traffic.
The up to 560 meter long butt tracks of the large freight area are laid at an angle to the through station. From the Spanish side they can only be reached via a saw drive . The 28 tracks are partly in standard gauge, partly in broad gauge and partly as three- rail tracks for both gauges. There are open and covered reloading areas, scales and crane systems.
In a hall at the north end of the station there is a gauge change system built in 1968 for the continuous Talgo passenger trains to and from France, Switzerland and Italy. There, the track width of the wagons is adapted to the respective track network when driving slowly through. Since the commissioning of the high-speed line between Perpignan and Barcelona, the lane change system has no longer been used in regular operation.
For a train station of this size, the access to and from the city is unusually small and winding. However, local traffic only played a subordinate role here compared to broken through traffic. Access also ends in an anteroom to the counter hall and because of its function as a border station has no connection to one of the platform tunnels.
gallery
Two Talgo trains in front of the Colera tunnel
Station concourse and signal box
Parked Talgo in the standard lane area
Spanish passenger train on the broad gauge side, 1989
Traveler access from the city
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ euroferroviarios.net accessed on March 16, 2013