Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg (

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: La Tor de Querol-Enveig) or Latour-de-Carol is a railway station in

Enveitg Enveitg (; , ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Localization Enveitg is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. Transport Latour-de-Car ...

and

Latour-de-Carol Latour-de-Carol (; ca, La Tor de Querol) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Localization Latour-de-Carol is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades ...

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, France. It is the current terminus of three lines. France's

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operates

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(local) services on the

Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway The Portet-Saint-Simon - Puigcerdà railway is a secondary railway line in southwestern France. It connects Portet-sur-Garonne, 11 km south of Toulouse on the Toulouse–Bayonne railway, to Latour-de-Carol and Puigcerdà, towns located on eac ...

(from Toulouse-Matabiau) and on the

Ligne de Cerdagne The ''Ligne de Cerdagne'', usually referred to as ''Le Petit Train Jaune'' ( en, Little Yellow Train, ca, Tren Groc), is a gauge railway that runs from Villefranche-de-Conflent to Latour-de-Carol- Enveitg in the French Pyrenees. Construction s ...

known as ''Train Jaune'' (from

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, with connections to

Perpignan Perpignan (, , ; ca, Perpinyà ; es, Perpiñán ; it, Perpignano ) is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the ...

). Spain's Renfe Operadora runs

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trains from

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on the Barcelona commuter rail line R3.

also runs

Intercités de Nuit Intercités de Nuit is a brand name used by France’s national railway company, SNCF, to denote overnight passenger rail services in France. It was known as ''Corail Lunéa'' before 2009 and as ''Lunéa'' from 2010 to 2012. Between 2013 and 2 ...

night trains to Paris. Latour-de-Carol is one of the few stations in the world with three different gauges. Others include

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and

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, Madrid Atocha station(when the

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is included),

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and Embarcadero stations in

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, and several stations in

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, mostly on the

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. The line to Toulouse-Matabiau is ; the line to

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is ; and the Cerdagne line to

is . The three lines each have a different voltage supply: 1500 V DC (overhead France), 3000 V DC (overhead Spain), and 850 V DC (

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), respectively. Platform 1 also features the longest covered platform in France. Services from Latour-de-Carol are to

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

, Barcelona and

where one can change for

Train services

The following services currently call at Latour-de-Carol:Le réseau régional de transport public
TER Occitanie, accessed 11 May 2022. *night service (''Intercités de nuit'') Paris–Toulouse–Pamiers–Latour-de-Carol *local service (TER Occitanie) Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg–Font-Romeu–Villefranche-Vernet-les-Bains *local service (TER Occitanie) Toulouse–Foix–Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg *local service (Rodalies de Catalunya line R3) L'Hospitalet de Llobregat–Barcelona-Sants–Vic–La Tor de Querol-Enveig

Gallery

File:Quais enveigt.jpg, The station showing the 3 different gauges File:Trainjaune 02.jpg, A Z 100 unit for the Cerdagne line at Latour-de-Carol File:Enveig des de Guils de Cerdanya.jpg, The station in the foreground File:AGC_Z_27500.jpg, A B81500 at Latour-de-Carol on the service to Toulouse

References

External links

Spanish Railways website

Photos
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