The gare d'Hendaye is a
railway station
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in
Hendaye
Hendaye ( Basque: ''Hendaia'')[HENDAIA]
France
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, on the
Bordeaux-Irun and
Madrid-Hendaye lines. The station is served by
TGV
The TGV (french: Train à Grande Vitesse, "high-speed train"; previously french: TurboTrain à Grande Vitesse, label=none) is France's intercity high-speed rail service, operated by SNCF. SNCF worked on a high-speed rail network from 1966 to 19 ...
high speed trains,
Intercités de nuit
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Between 2013 and 20 ...
night trains,
Intercités
Intercités (before September 2009: ''Corail Intercités'') is a brand name used by France’s national railway company, SNCF, to denote non high speed services on the 'classic' network in France.
SNCF established the Intercités brand in January ...
long distance and
TER
Ter or TER may refer to:
Places
* River Ter, in Essex, England
* Ter (river), in Catalonia
* Ter (department), a region in France
* Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy
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local services operated by the
SNCF,
Trenhotel and
Arco services operated by
RENFE, and
EuskoTren
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services.
The
Euskotren
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services operate from a station on the forecourt of the SNCF station, for which separate ticketing is required.
The station is a border railway station where all trains have to stop, as those coming from/going into
Spain
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, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
have to
change gauge from to . The
electric supply also changes here from 1500
V DC (
overhead France) to 3000 V DC (overhead Spain). Between the stations of Hendaye and
Irun
Irun ( es, Irún, eu, Irun) is a town of the Bidasoaldea region in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain.
History
It lies on the foundations of the ancient Oiasso, cited as a Roman-Vasconic town.
During the Span ...
, both track gauges run
together
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.
Train services
The following services currently call at Hendaye:
*high speed services (''TGV'') Paris - Bordeaux - Hendaye
*intercity services (''Intercités'') Hendaye - Bayonne - Pau - Tarbes - Toulouse
*local service (TER Aquitaine) Bordeaux - Dax - Bayonne - Hendaye
See also
*
Meeting at Hendaye
The Meeting of Hendaye, or Interview of Hendaye, took place between Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler (then respectively Caudillo of Spain and Führer of Germany) on 23 October 1940 at the railway station in Hendaye, France
Fran ...
– the only meeting between
Adolf Hitler
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and
Francisco Franco, which took place at this station on 23 October 1940
*
Variable gauge
A variable gauge system allows railway vehicles in a train to travel across a break of gauge between two railway networks with different track gauges.
For through operation, a train must be equipped with special bogies holding variable gauge w ...
References
Railway stations in Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Euskotren Trena stations
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