Camp de Tarragona is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

, opened on 19 December 2006, on the Madrid-Barcelona high-speed rail line between

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

and

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

. Located between the municipalities of

La Secuita La Secuita is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. With 1,177 inhabitants, La Secuita is some 266 mi (or 428 km) East of Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of S ...

and

Perafort Perafort or Perafort i Puigdelfí is a municipality in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. The municipality has three exclave An enclave is a territory (or a small territory apart of a larger one) that is entirely surrounded by the ter ...

,TGV arrives to Tarragona
some 8 km north of

Tarragona Tarragona (, ; Phoenician: ''Tarqon''; la, Tarraco) is a port city located in northeast Spain on the Costa Daurada by the Mediterranean Sea. Founded before the fifth century BC, it is the capital of the Province of Tarragona, and part of Tarr ...

itself, the new station serves an area with an estimated population of over 400,000. The station complex, covering 5.2 hectares, has eight

standard-gauge A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), International gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe, and SGR in Ea ...

tracks (four platform tracks and four central through tracks), two 400-metre-long

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

s, passenger handling facilities, a travel centre, shops, and parking for 648 vehicles. The high speed railway to the French frontier opened for service in 2013.

Rail services

References

External links

Camp de Tarragona
listing at Adif website
Information and photos of the station
at Trenscat.com * {{Authority control Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line Railway stations in Catalonia Railway stations opened in 2006 Transport in Tarragonès