Portbou railway station explained

Portbou
Style:Adif
Address:Carrer Claudi Planas
17497 Portbou
Country:Spain
Coordinates:42.4247°N 3.1578°W
Line:
Structure:At-grade
Opened:1878
Code:79315
Owned:Adif
Operator:Renfe Operadora and SNCF
Map Type:Catalonia#Spain#Europe
Map Dot Label:Portbou
Embedded:
Stroke-Colour:
  1. C60C30
Stroke-Width:3
Marker:rail-underground
Marker-Colour:
  1. 009D58
Zoom:15

Portbou is a railway station serving Portbou in Catalonia, Spain. It is on the Barcelona–Cerbère railway and the Narbonne–Portbou railway. The station is owned by Adif and is served by Rodalies de Catalunya regional line and Girona commuter rail service line and TER Occitanie trains also serve the station.

The station is a border railway station where all trains have to stop, as those coming from/going into France have to change gauge from to . Between Portbou railway station and Cerbère railway station in France, both track gauges run through the Balitres tunnel.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Listado de líneas y estaciones . List of railway lines and stations . Spanish . PDF . . 27 June 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131018003206/https://sede.fomento.gob.es/NR/rdonlyres/4A8F0821-A4B6-4EB0-9F1C-BF4100B2BF77/68661/Ayuda_lineas_Estaciones.pdf . 18 October 2013 .