Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg station

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Latour-de-Carol railway station
General information
Location Enveitg, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France
Coordinates 42°27′31″N1°54′22″E / 42.45861°N 1.90611°E / 42.45861; 1.90611
Line(s) Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway
Ligne de Cerdagne
Montcada i Reixac–Puigcerdà
Platforms4
Tracks11
Other information
Station code87611483
Services
Preceding station SNCF Following station
Porté-Puymorens Intercités (night)
Terminus
Preceding station TER Occitanie Following station
Porté-Puymorens
towards Toulouse
11Terminus
Terminus32 Béna Fanès
Preceding station Rodalies de Catalunya.svg Rodalies de Catalunya Following station
Puigcerdà R3 Terminus

Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg (Catalan: La Tor de Querol-Enveig) or Latour-de-Carol is a railway station in Enveitg and Latour-de-Carol, Occitanie, France. It is the current terminus of three lines.

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France's SNCF operates TER (local) services on the Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway (from Toulouse-Matabiau) and on the Ligne de Cerdagne known as Train Jaune (from Villefranche-de-Conflent, with connections to Perpignan). Spain's Renfe Operadora runs Rodalies de Catalunya trains from L'Hospitalet de Llobregat on the Barcelona commuter rail line R3. SNCF also runs Intercités de Nuit night trains to Paris.

Latour-de-Carol is one of the few stations in the world with three different gauges. Others include Montreux railway station, Hendaye station and Jenbach railway station, Madrid Atocha station(when the metro is included), Powell Street and Embarcadero stations in San Francisco, and several stations in Tokyo, mostly on the Toei Shinjuku Line. The line to Toulouse-Matabiau is 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge ; the line to Barcelona is 1,668 mm (5 ft 5+2132 in) Iberian gauge ; and the Cerdagne line to Villefranche-de-Conflent is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+38 in) metre gauge . The three lines each have a different voltage supply: 1500 V DC (overhead France), 3000 V DC (overhead Spain), and 850 V DC (3rd Rail, Ligne de Cerdagne), respectively.

Platform 1 also features the longest covered platform in France.

Services from Latour-de-Carol are to Toulouse, Barcelona and Villefranche-de-Conflent where one can change for Perpignan.

Train services

The following services currently call at Latour-de-Carol: [1] [2]

Preceding station SNCF Following station
Porté-Puymorens Intercités (night)
Terminus
Preceding station TER Occitanie Following station
Porté-Puymorens
towards Toulouse
11Terminus
Terminus32 Béna Fanès
Preceding station Rodalies de Catalunya.svg Rodalies de Catalunya Following station
Puigcerdà R3 Terminus

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References

  1. Timetable search, TER Occitanie
  2. Le réseau régional de transport public, TER Occitanie, accessed 11 May 2022.