R15 (Rodalies de Catalunya)
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Overview | |
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Service type | Regional rail |
Status | Operational |
Locale | Provinces of Barcelona and Tarragona |
Current operator(s) | Renfe Operadora |
Route | |
Start | Barcelona Estació de França |
Stops | 24 |
End | Riba-roja d'Ebre |
Distance travelled | 184 km (114 mi) |
Average journey time | 2 h 54 min - 3 h 2 min |
Service frequency | Every 4 h 30 min |
Line used | |
Technical | |
Rolling stock | 448 Series, 449 Series and 470 Series EMUs |
Track gauge | 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 21⁄32 in) Iberian gauge |
Electrification | 3,000 V DC overhead lines |
Operating speed | 160 km/h |
Track owner(s) | Adif |
The R15 is a line of Rodalies de Catalunya's regional rail services, operated by Renfe Operadora. It runs southwards from Barcelona, passing through Tarragona region. The line then continues towards southwestern Catalonia as far as Riba-roja d'Ebre, close to the border with Aragon.
All R15 trains use the Aragó Tunnel in Barcelona, where they share tracks with Rodalies de Catalunya's Barcelona commuter rail services R2, R2 Nord and R2 Sud, as well as regional rail lines R11, R13, R14 and R16, calling at Sants and Passeig de Gràcia stations.[1] Between Barcelona and Sant Vicenç de Calders, they use the conventional Madrid–Barcelona railway, between Sant Vicenç de Calders and Tarragona, they use the Valencia–Sant Vicenç de Calders railway, Tarragona and Reus, they use the Tarragona–Lleida railway, and between Reus and Riba-roja d'Ebre, they use the Reus–Caspe–Zaragoza railway.
List of stations
The following table lists the name of each station served by line R15 in order from east to west; the station's service pattern offered by R15 trains; the transfers to other Rodalies de Catalunya lines, including both commuter and regional rail services; remarkable transfers to other transport systems; the municipality in which each station is located; and the fare zone each station belongs to according to the Autoritat del Transport Metropolità (ATM Àrea de Barcelona) fare-integrated public transport system and Rodalies de Catalunya's own fare zone system for Barcelona commuter rail service lines.[2][3]
# | Terminal of a service |
* | Transfer station to other transport systems |
#* | Transfer station and terminal |
● | Station served by all trains running through it |
○ | Limited service station |
References
Bibliography
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External links
- Rodalies de Catalunya official website
- Schedule for the R15 (PDF format)
- R15 Rodalies (rod15cat) on Twitter. Official Twitter account by Rodalies de Catalunya for the R15 with service status updates (tweets usually published only in Catalan)
- Geographic data related to R15 at OpenStreetMap
- R15 (rodalia 15) on Twitter. Unofficial Twitter account by Rodalia.info monitoring real-time information about the R15 by its users.
- Information about the R15 at trenscat.cat (Catalan)