Cerbère station

Cerbère station (French: Gare de Cerbère) is the railway station serving the border town Cerbère, Pyrénées-Orientales department, southern France.

Cerbère station

It is connected to the Portbou railway station in Spain by the Balitres tunnel, which uses standard gauge track for trains continuing in France and Iberian gauge track for trains continuing in Spain; both stations provide an opportunity to change between French and Spanish services. The tunnel provided a walking escape route for defeated Spanish republicans in 1939 at the end of the Spanish Civil War.

The following services currently call at Cerbère:

night services (Lunéa) Paris–Limoges–Narbonne–Portbou
local service (TER Occitanie) Cerbère–Narbonne–Montpellier–Avignon
local service (TER Occitanie) Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne
local service (Rodalies de Catalunya) Barcelona–Portbou–Cerbère (Outbound service only from Barcelona)

Historically, the station was also served by the Catalan Talgo service from Montpellier to Barcelona and the Talgo from Montpellier to Murcia, which changed gauge at Portbou, and the Estrella Costa Brava sleeper train from Madrid (on the Iberian gauge track).

Preceding station	SNCF	Following station
Banyuls-sur-Mer toward Paris-Austerlitz	Intercités night trains	Portbou Terminus
Terminus	TER Occitanie L2	Perpignan toward Avignon-Centre
Terminus	TER Occitanie L5	Banyuls-sur-Mer toward Narbonne
Preceding station	Rodalies de Catalunya	Following station
Terminus	R11	Portbou toward Barcelona Sants

References

Timetables TER Languedoc-Roussillon (in French)

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