Rail transport in Catalonia

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Girona rail station

Rail transport in Catalonia operates on three rail gauges and services are operated by a variety of public operators:[1]

Transport authorities

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Catalan transport authorities map.

Transport authorities are interadministrative voluntarily corporations responsible of coordinate a public transport system. Nowadays there are four transport authorities in Catalonia:

Rodalies Barcelona

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New Cornellà station entrance
112 FGC train stock

Rodalies Barcelona Rodalies de Catalunya símbol.svg FGC.svg is the principal element of Barcelona metropolitan area transport and in some municipalities of Girona and Tarragona.

There are 15 lines (R1-R2-R3-R4-R7-R10-S1-S2-S5-S55-S1-S8-S33-R5-R6) operated by:

Mitjana distància

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Line 1 train between Calella and Sant Pol de Mar

Mitjana distància or Media distancia Renfe (in catalan or castilian) Logo, Renfe Media distancia.PNG (also called Catalunya Exprés: Ca lines) there are 9 lines (Ca1-Ca2-Ca3-Ca4-Ca5-Ca6-Ca7-R43-L7). Those lines go all around of the four catalan provinces and some of them go to Zaragoza (Aragón) and Castelló de la Plana and València in País Valencià. Lines are operated by:

  1. ^ All Barcelona trains start in Estació de França, Sant Andreu Comtal or Barcelona Sants.
  2. ^ That line was traspassed to U.N. Rodalies and now is considered a Rodalies Barcelona line 3 enlargement.
  3. ^ That line was traspassed to FGC but is operated by Renfe Operadora.[5]

Llarga distància

Estrella train
Talgo 350 - AVE
Trenhotel Salvador Dalí
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Euromed to València Nord station
Alaris to Silla (València).
Arco García Lorca to Alzira (València).

Llarga distància or Larga distancia (in catalan or castilian) File:LD in white letters on a gray background.png are Renfe lines that used other Renfe lines, mitjana distància or Rodalies, and connect Catalonia with other Spanish towns or European cities. Some of them are high speed lines.[6]

Alta Velocidad Española

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High speed lines are operated by Renfe in a commercial branch called Alta Velocidad Española (AVE). Those lines run in new standard gauge railways.

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102-014 stock to Montblanc station

Railway gauge

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Most of catalan railway gauge is broad gauge, as in the other parts of Spain, and the new railways are build in standard gauge for being able to connect with European railways. That's why there are some stations where trains can change the gauge. For the moment there are only two stations in Catalonia that have that machinery:

Metropolitan railways

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Barcelona metro map

There are 11 metropolitan lines in Barcelona (L1-L2-L3-L4-L5-L6-L7-L8-L9-L10-L11) operated by:

  • Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona: 7 underground lines, one of them in old spanish broad gauge (line 1), the others have standard gauge.
    • L1 (Opened on 1926 called Ferrocarril Metropolità Transversal de Barcelona) Hospital de Bellvitge - Fondo
    • L2 (Opened on 1995) Paral·lel - Badalona Pompeu Fabra
    • L3 (Opened on 1924 called Gran Metropolità de Barcelona) Zona Universitària - Trinitat Nova
    • L4 (Opened on 1973) Trinitat Nova - La Pau
    • L5 (Opened in 1969) Cornellà Centre - Vall d'Hebron
    • L9 (Line 9 will open partially on September 2009 and totally in 2014) Aeroport-Terminal sud - Can Zam
    • L10 (Line 9 branch) Zona Franca ZAL - Gorg
    • L11 (Opened in 2003) Trinitat Nova - Can Cuiàs
  • Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya:
    • Metro del Vallès:
      • L6 (Opened in 1863) Plaça Catalunya - Reina Elisenda.
      • L7 (Opened in 1954) Plaça Catalunya - Avinguda Tibidabo.
    • Metro del Baix Llobregat:
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        (Opened in 1912) Plaça Espanya - Molí Nou-Ciutat Cooperativa.
Metro de Barcelona
Name Color Terminal Terminal Opened First
service
Operator Km Stations Time
(m)
Gauge
(mm)
L1 Red Hospital de Bellvitge Fondo 1926 1926 20px TMB 20'7 30 35 1674
L2 Purple Paral·lel Badalona Pompeu Fabra 1995 1959 20px TMB 13'5 17 24 1435
L3 Green Zona Universitària Trinitat Nova 1924 1924 20px TMB 18'5 26 36 1435
L4 Yellow Trinitat Nova La Pau 1973 1926 20px TMB 16'7 22 36 1435
L5 Blue Cornellà Centre Vall d'Hebron 1959 1959 20px TMB 16'6 23 37 1435
L6 Navy blue Plaça Catalunya Reina Elisenda 1929 18634 Logotip FGC.png FGC 5'2 9 14 1435
L7 Brown Plaça Catalunya Avinguda Tibidabo 1954 18634 Logotip FGC.png FGC 4'63 7 10 1435
L8 Pink Plaça Espanya Molí Nou-C.C. 2000 1912 Logotip FGC.png FGC 12 11 21 1000
L9 Orange Terminal Sud Can Zam 2009-14 - 20px TMB 47'8 39 (51) - 1435
L10 Light blue Gorg Polígon Pratenc 2009-14 - 20px TMB - 32 - 1435
L11 Light green Trinitat Nova Can Cuiàs 2003 2003 20px TMB 2'1 5 6 1435

Territory

Nowadays there are 32 comarcas with some kind of service, 14 of those have Rodalies Barcelona and/or FGC services. There are comarcas that have medium-distance stations or long-distance and 9 comarcas without ferrocarril service.

References

  1. Trenscat, Catalan trains web (Catalan)
  2. Rodalies map
  3. Xarxa FGC
  4. Mitjana Distància Renfe map
  5. Ministeri de Foment. «Traspàs de la línia de la Pobla de Segur».Nota del traspàs PDF (55.2 KB) (Spanish)
  6. Llarga distància Renfe (Spanish)