Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg station
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.
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 |
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 | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
toward Paris-Austerlitz | Intercités night trains | Terminus | ||
Terminus | TER Occitanie L6 | |||
toward Toulouse | TER Occitanie M11 | Terminus | ||
Preceding station | 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
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gare de Latour-de-Carol. |
- 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