Gare de Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg

Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg SNCF

Latour-de-Carol railway station
Location Enveitg, Pyrénées-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon,  France
Coordinates 42°27′31″N 1°54′22″E / 42.45861°N 1.90611°E / 42.45861; 1.90611Coordinates: 42°27′31″N 1°54′22″E / 42.45861°N 1.90611°E / 42.45861; 1.90611
Line(s) Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway
Ligne de Cerdagne
Montcada i Reixac–Puigcerdà
Platforms 4
Tracks 11

Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg (Catalan: La Tor de Querol-Enveig) or Latour-de-Carol is a railway station in Enveitg and Latour-de-Carol, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. It is the current terminus of three lines.

France's SNCF operates TER (local) services on the Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway (from Toulouse-Matabiau) and on the Ligne de Cerdagne known as Petit Train Jaune (from Villefranche-de-Conflent, with connections to Perpignan). Spain's Renfe Operadora runs Rodalies de Catalunya trains from L'Hospitalet de Llobregat on the Barcelona commuter rail line R3. SNCF also runs Intercités de Nuit night trains to Paris.

Latour-de-Carol is one of the few stations in the world with three different gauges (another being Montreux railway station): The line to Toulouse-Matabiau is 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge; the line to Barcelona is 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 21⁄32 in) Iberian gauge; and the Cerdagne line to Villefranche-de-Conflent is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) metre gauge. The three lines each have a different voltage supply: 1500 V DC (overhead France), 3000 V DC (overhead Spain), and 850 V DC (3rd Rail, Ligne de Cerdagne), respectively.

Platform 1 also features the longest covered platform in France.

Services from Latour-de-Carol are to Toulouse, Barcelona and Villefranche-de-Conflent where one can change for Perpignan.

Train Services

The following services currently call at Latour-de-Carol:

Preceding station   SNCF   Following station
Intercités
night trains		Terminus
TerminusTER Languedoc-Roussillon 6
toward Villefranche-Vernet-les-Bains
toward Toulouse
TER Midi-Pyrénées 22Terminus
Preceding station   Rodalies de Catalunya   Following station
Puigcerdà
toward L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
R3Terminus

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