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
Intercités
night trains
Terminus
TerminusTER Occitanie L2
TerminusTER Occitanie L5
Banyuls-sur-Mer
toward Narbonne
Preceding station   Rodalies de Catalunya   Following station
TerminusR11

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