Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg station

Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg
Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg
	Latour-de-Carol railway station
Location	Enveitg, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France
Coordinates	42°27′31″N 1°54′22″E
Line(s)	Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway ; Ligne de Cerdagne ; Montcada i Reixac–Puigcerdà
Platforms	4
Tracks	11

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.

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 Petit 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 (another being Montreux railway station): The line to Toulouse-Matabiau is 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in) standard gauge; the line to Barcelona is 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 ²¹⁄₃₂ in) Iberian gauge; and the Cerdagne line to Villefranche-de-Conflent is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ 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:

night service (Intercités de Nuit) Paris–Toulouse–Pamiers–Latour-de-Carol
local service (TER Occitanie) Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg–Font-Romeu–Villefranche-Vernet-les-Bains
local service (TER Occitanie) Toulouse–Foix–Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg
local service (Rodalies de Catalunya line R3) L'Hospitalet de Llobregat–Barcelona-Sants–Vic–La Tor de Querol-Enveig

Preceding station	SNCF	Following station
Porté-Puymorens toward Paris-Austerlitz	Intercités night trains	Terminus
Terminus	TER Occitanie L6	Béna Fanès toward Villefranche-Vernet-les-Bains
Porté-Puymorens toward Toulouse	TER Occitanie M11	Terminus
Preceding station	Rodalies de Catalunya	Following station
Puigcerdà toward L'Hospitalet de Llobregat	R3	Terminus

Gallery

The station showing the 3 different gauges
A Z 100 unit for the Cerdagne line at Latour-de-Carol
The station in the foreground
A B81500 at Latour-de-Carol on the service to Toulouse

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References

External links

TER Midi-Pyrénées Service 22 (in French)
Toulouse-Latour-de-Carol timetable (in English)
TER Languedoc-Roussillon Service 08 (in French)
Spanish Railways website (in Spanish)
Photos

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