San Roque railway station explained

San Roque-La Linea station
Type:Railway Station
Style:Adif
Address:San Roque, Andalusia
Country:Spain
Coordinates:36.2139°N -5.4322°W
Line:Algeciras-Bobadilla railway
Opened:1909
Owned:Adif
Passengers:60,386[1]
Pass Year:2018

San Roque station (called in the railway system San Roque-La Línea, due to the proximity of La Línea de la Concepción) is located in a neighbourhood belonging to the municipality of San Roque in the Cadiz province. The population of the neighbourhood is 2,582 inhabitants and it is situated between the river and the Guadarranque mountain. This neighbourhood is bordered by Taraguilla.

The neighbourhood was founded in 1909,[2] the date on which they built the railway station and surrounding neighbourhoods were established mainly from the nearby Ronda mountains leading to the neighbourhood.

Adif Station

The importance of this neighborhood is that it is located ADIF railway station in the municipality of San Roque, which also provides service to La Linea de la Concepcion and Gibraltar, about 125,000 people in total. This station was opened in 1909 on the Algeciras-Bobadilla railway line and is an early stop on the Algeciras-Granada Renfe service with three trains a day.This station is being redesigned to allow greater accessibility to the disabled.[3]

Communications

In addition to the railway station, the San Roque station can be accessed by the A-405, which connects to Gaucin, and exit 115 of the A-7. There are two roads, the CA-9203 and CA-9207, leading to the Pinar del Rey and Los Barrios, respectively.

The San Roque station is included in the fare system of the Metropolitan Transport Consortium of Campo de Gibraltar. It belongs to the AB zone (Central Bay Arc).

Bus routes stopping at the station San Roque
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align=center M-121 Los Barrios - La LineaComes
align=center M-170 San Pablo - Jimena - Castellar - AlgecirasComes
align=center M-270 San Pablo - Jimena - Castellar - La LineaComes
City Buses
align=center 1 San Roque City Centre - Rail StationEsteban

Freight

A few miles north is the freight station of San Roque, one of the 19 stations of this kind in Spain, Adif maintained and operated by Renfe. The logistics terminal is the second busiest in Andalusia, Seville, just behind-the Bold.[4] It is accessible from the A-405.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Adif - Información de estaciones - San Roque. ADIF. 3 September 2019.
  2. http://www.sanroque.es/actualidad/enero-2009/noticia.2009-01-23.8089612862 Station San Roque marks a century and has prepared various events to celebrate
  3. http://www.europasur.es/article/comarca/651911/adif/adjudica/mas/euros/para/la/estacion/san/roque.html ADIF adjudicates over 112,000 euros for the station of San Roque
  4. http://www.diariosur.es/20080419/gibraltar/terminal-roque-segunda-andalucia-20080419.html terminal of San Roque, Andalusia, with a second of 31,121 teus traffic