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-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

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

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

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