Cerbère station

Gare de Cerbère is the railway station serving the border town Cerbère, Pyrénées-Orientales department, southern France.

Cerbère station

It is connected to the Portbou railway station in Spain by the Balitres tunnel, which uses standard gauge track for trains continuing in France and Iberian gauge track for trains continuing in Spain; both stations provide an opportunity to change between French and Spanish services. The tunnel provided an walking escape route for defeated Spanish republicans in 1939 at the end of the Spanish Civil War.

The following services currently call at Cerbère:

• night services (Lunéa) Paris–Limoges–Narbonne–Portbou
• local service (TER Occitanie) Cerbère–Narbonne–Montpellier–Avignon
• local service (TER Occitanie) Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne
• local service (Rodalies de Catalunya) Barcelona–Portbou–Cerbère (Outbound service only from Barcelona)

Historically, the station was also served by the Catalan Talgo service from Montpellier to Barcelona and the Talgo from Montpellier to Murcia, which changed gauge at Portbou, and the Estrella Costa Brava sleeper train from Madrid (on the Iberian gauge track).

Preceding station		SNCF		Following station
Banyuls-sur-Mer toward Paris-Austerlitz		Intercités night trains		Portbou Terminus
Terminus		TER Occitanie L2		Perpignan toward Avignon-Centre
Terminus		TER Occitanie L5		Banyuls-sur-Mer toward Narbonne
Preceding station		Rodalies de Catalunya		Following station
Terminus		R11		Portbou toward Barcelona Sants

References

• Timetables TER Languedoc-Roussillon (in French)