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 Latour-de-Carol railway station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Enveitg, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°27′31″N 1°54′22″E / 42.45861°N 1.90611°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway Ligne de Cerdagne Montcada i Reixac–Puigcerdà | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 87611483 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 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. Others include Montreux railway station, Hendaye station and Jenbach railway station, Madrid Atocha station(when the metro is included), Powell Street and Embarcadero stations in San Francisco, and several stations in Tokyo, mostly on the Toei Shinjuku Line. 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:[1][2]
| Preceding station | SNCF | Following station | ||
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| Porté-Puymorens towards Paris-Austerlitz |
Intercités (night) | Terminus | ||
| Preceding station | TER Occitanie | Following station | ||
| Porté-Puymorens towards Toulouse |
11 | Terminus | ||
| Terminus | 32 | Béna Fanès towards Villefranche–Vernet-les-Bains | ||
| Preceding station |  Rodalies de Catalunya |
Following station | ||
| Puigcerdà towards 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
- ↑ Timetable search, TER Occitanie
- ↑ Le réseau régional de transport public, TER Occitanie, accessed 11 May 2022.
External links
- Spanish Railways website (in Spanish)
- Photos