Bellvitge railway station

For the Barcelona Metro line 1 station, see Bellvitge (Barcelona Metro).

Bellvitge
Rodalies de Catalunya commuter and regional rail station
File:Tren a Bellvitge.JPG A Renfe Operadora 449 Series train at the station.
Location	Avinguda d'Amèrica 08907 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat Catalonia Spain
Coordinates
Owned by	Adif
Operated by	Renfe Operadora
Line(s)	Madrid–Barcelona (PK 671.9)
Platforms	1 side platform 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Connections	Rapid transit and commuter rail services at Gornal station Urban buses
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	A parking lot is located at each side of the station.
Disabled access	No
Other information
Station code	71708
Fare zone	1 (ATM Àrea de Barcelona and Rodalies de Catalunya's Barcelona commuter rail service)
History
Opened	10 March 1977 (1977-03-10)
Services
Preceding station   Rodalies de Catalunya   Following station El Prat de Llobregat toward Castelldefels R2 Barcelona Sants toward Granollers Centre El Prat de Llobregat toward Barcelona–El Prat Airport R2 Nord Barcelona Sants toward Maçanet-Massanes El Prat de Llobregat toward Sant Vicenç de Calders R2 Sud Barcelona Sants toward Barcelona Estació de França El Prat de Llobregat toward Riba-roja d'Ebre R15   Suspended   El Prat de Llobregat toward Barcelona–El Prat Airport R10 Barcelona Sants toward Barcelona Estació de França
Location
Bellvitge Location in the Barcelona area.

Bellvitge is a Rodalies de Catalunya commuter rail station serving the neighborhood of the same name, in the L'Hospitalet de Llobregat municipality, to the south-west of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It is on the conventional Madrid–Barcelona railway and is served by all trains on Barcelona commuter rail service lines R2 and R2 Nord, as well as some R2 Sud trains. Some trains on regional line R15 also call at the station.

Opened on 10 March 1977 (1977-03-10), the current at-grade station is projected to be put underground together with the rest of the conventional Madrid–Barcelona railway on its way through L'Hospitalet de Llobregat in the coming years. In October 2007, the construction works of the Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line in Barcelona's southern access, which runs through an underground route parallel to the conventional line in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, caused a partial sudden collapse of one of the station's platforms. Due to precedent ground subsidiences in the area, the station was shut down as a preventive measure at the moment it occurred, so that there were neither fatalities nor injured people.

Gornal station, served by Barcelona Metro line 8 and several commuter rail services, is located adjacent to Bellvitge station, on the east side of it, allowing for street-level transfers between the two stations.

Rodalies de Catalunya's Bellvitge station should not be confused with the Barcelona Metro line 1 station of the same name, which is some 750 metres (2,460 ft) to the west.

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons
• Bellvitge listing at the Rodalies de Catalunya website
• Information and photos of the station at trenscat.cat (Catalan)
• Video on train operations at the station on YouTubeca:Estació de Bellvitge/Gornal