Gare de Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg
- Railway Portet -Saint -Simon- Puigcerda (Km 163,03 )
- Railway Ripoll Puigcerdà (Km 52.5 )
- Ligne de Cerdanya (Km 62.5 )
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The station Latour -de- Carol - Enveitg is a border station in the French Pyrenees on the border with Spain. At the same time it represents the composition of three railroads with different gauges and power systems dar. He is the only global, where the gauges in 1668, 1435 and 1000 millimeters meet.
Location
The station is located at 1283 meters altitude in the communities Latour -de- Carol and Enveitg of the Pyrenees -Orientales in the Languedoc- Roussillon region.
History
The Spanish track of Puigcerda Latour -de -Carol was opened on 5 June 1928, the French of Ax -les -Thermes, on 22 July 1929. Ligne de Cerdanya The narrow reached the place also on 22 July 1929. 's Extensive freight station is currently not used anymore.
Description
At the station end three railway lines. The transboundary French railway Portet -Saint -Simon- Puigcerda is interrupted shortly before the former endpoint Puigcerda, the trains terminate in Latour- de -Carol. The coming out of the valley of the Garonne steep mountain route is regelspurig, electrified by contact wire and single track with 1500 volts DC. The platform 1, at which the trains generally end, is the longest covered platform in France.
From Puigcerda is a double-track line, the eastern track has the European standard gauge, the western Iberian broad gauge. The standard gauge railway is no longer used, the traffic to and from Spain is carried out exclusively with wide-track vehicles of Renfe. These trains terminate at the former border severance island platform 2 The broad gauge railway is electrified with overhead wire and a DC voltage of 3000 volts.
At the southern end of the platform 1, on its northern side, forming the narrow gauge trains of the Ligne de Cerdanya. The coming of Villefranche -de- Conflent trains operate on meter gauge tracks and get their direct current of 750 volts from a side-mounted power rail. About the Platform 1 is a direct transfer from and to the conquest of the Portet -Saint -Simon is possible.
Traffic
About the route to Portet -Saint -Simon Regional trains run to and from Toulouse, and from Paris, there is a direct overnight in Intercités network SNCF.
The also "Train jaune " (yellow train ) called narrow gauge railway station is in Villefranche - Vernet -les- Bains establishes direct connection to Perpignan across the web Perpignan- Villefranche -de- Conflent.
Trains begin the Línea R 3 of the regional transport network of Barcelona on the route from Puigcerda and also end in Latour- de -Carol.
Gallery
French BB 8500 alongside Spanish series 1000 and RENFE series 438 railcars in Latour- de -Carol, 1985
Platform 1 - left the narrow gauge railway, right in the middle of a Spanish and a French train, 2006
Narrow-gauge cars with summer, in foreground of Umladebahnsteig to standard gauge in 2002