Bellvitge is a Rodalies de Catalunya commuter rail

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serving the neighborhood of the same name, in the

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (; es, Hospitalet de Llobregat), often shortened to L'Hospitalet or just L'H, is a municipality of Spain, located to the immediate southwest of Barcelona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is part of the Bar ...

municipality, to the south-west of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It is on the conventional

Madrid–Barcelona railway The Madrid–Barcelona railway is the conventional railway line linking the Spanish capital Madrid with the country's second largest city of Barcelona, Catalonia. It now primarily serves local commuter rail services and regional traffic since th ...

, between and , and is served by all trains on Barcelona commuter rail service lines and , as well as some trains. Some trains on regional line also call at the station. Opened on , the current at-grade station is projected to be put underground together with the rest of the conventional Madrid–Barcelona railway on its way through L'Hospitalet de Llobregat in the coming years. In October 2007, the construction works of the Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line in Barcelona's southern access, which runs through an underground route parallel to the conventional line in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, caused a partial sudden collapse of one of the station's platforms. Due to precedent ground subsidence in the area, the station was shut down as a preventive measure at the moment it occurred, so that there were neither fatalities nor injured people. Gornal station, served by Barcelona Metro line 8 and several commuter rail services, is located adjacent to Bellvitge station, on the east side of it, allowing for street-level transfers between the two stations. Rodalies de Catalunya's Bellvitge station should not be confused with the Barcelona Metro line 1 station of the same name, which is some to the west.Distances measured using Google Maps's "Distance Measurement Tool".

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Bellvitge
listing at the Rodalies de Catalunya website
Information and photos of the station
at trenscat.cat {{in lang, ca
Video on train operations at the station
on YouTube Rodalies de Catalunya stations Railway stations in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat Railway stations in Spain opened in 1977 ca:Estació de Bellvitge/Gornal es:Estación de Bellvitge