Gare d'Hendaye
- Railway line Bordeaux - Irun (Km 232.8 )
- Railway line Madrid- Hendaye
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The Hendaye train station is a French border station in the department of Pyrénées- Atlantiques in the Aquitaine region.
Location
The station is located on the territory of the town of Hendaye, close to the border with Spain at a height of 9 meters above the sea level. It lies close to the sea at the Baie de Chingoudy which is fed from the border river Bidasoa.
Description
The Hendaye train station is the penultimate station on the railway line Bordeaux - Irun railway terminal as well as the Spanish railway line Madrid- Hendaye. Similar to the train station Latour -de- Carol - Enveitg meet in Hendaye distances with three gauges, but the narrow range of Ferrocarriles Vasco El Topo San Sebastián- Amara ends on the street side in front of the reception building of the State railway station.
In Hendaye train station take, as in the neighboring Spanish station Irun, the French standard gauge and the Iberian broad gauge each other, also two different current systems. Both stations are connected by two single track sections in control and Iberian broad gauge. The distance between them is 2.27 kilometers from the last switch on the one until the first of the other less than 200 meters. In between the Bidasoa and running in their midst border to be crossed on a bridge.
The broad gauge platform tracks lie between the standard gauge, in the center of each island platforms are wire fences as relics of the border control regime before the entry into force of the Schengen Agreement. On the platform tracks regelspurige freight train tracks that Transfesa Umspuranlage, local freight facilities and the Umladegleise with gantry crane system to follow. The latter are connected only from France, so there is next to the route tracks to and from Biarritz a dreischieniges Ausziehgleis.
Operation
The stations Hendaye and Irun now operate jointly. Travel trains usually across the border, end up there and go back empty. Only Talgo trains can cross the track width difference by means of a Umspuranlage in Irun railway station and run on to Bayonne. There is a lane change system, where at designed for this purpose freight wagons, usually Transfesa, the wheel sets are changed so that they can operate on both networks without reloading. The Umspuranlage for coaches of standard design, which followed the broad gauge platform tracks, has been mined on the setting of continuous intercourse in 1994.
French regional SNCF trains end here, long-distance trains continue to Irun.
Front of the station building, the El Topo -called narrow gauge narrow gauge railway terminates (line 2) from Donostia -San Sebastián the Spanish railway company EuskoTren.
Gallery
Train Renfe at the exit from Hendaye
Two gauges on the bridge over the Bidasoa
Terminus of El Topo