Lleida Pirineus railway station
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Lleida
Lleida is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital city of the province of Lleida, as well as the largest city in the province and it had 137,387 inhabitants , including the contiguous municipalities of Raimat and Sucs. The metro area has about 250,000 inhabitants...
, Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...
, between the neighbourhoods of Pardinyes
Pardinyes
Pardinyes is a neighbourhood in Lleida . It's a 1920s to mid-20th century urban development grown out of new architecture built on former agricultural land between Balàfia and the River Segre...
and Rambla de Ferran. The first train services in Lleida date of 1860, but the station wasn't was built until 1927, and it didn't adopt its current official name until 2003, when it underwent an ambitious reform. It serves broad gauge and standard gauge trains. It is one of the high speed railway stations of AVE
AVE
Alta Velocidad Española is a service of high-speed rail in Spain operated by Renfe, the Spanish national railway company, at speeds of up to . The name is literally translated from Spanish as "Spanish High Speed", but also a play on the word , meaning "bird".AVE trains run on a network of...
Madrid-Barcelona high-speed rail line
Madrid-Barcelona high-speed rail line
The Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line is a standard gauge railway line inaugurated on 20 February 2008. Designed for speeds of and compatibility with neighbouring countries' rail systems, it connects the cities of Madrid and Barcelona, in Spain...
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Name
Although Lleida is not located in the PyreneesPyrenees
The Pyrenees is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain...
mountain range, a part of the Catalan Pyrenees is located within the province of Lleida
Lleida (province)
thumb|250px|Monastery of [[Santa Maria de Bellpuig de les Avellanes]].Lleida is a province of north-eastern Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is bordered by the provinces of Girona, Barcelona, Tarragona, Zaragoza and Huesca and the countries of France and...
, and Lleida Pirineus station is the terminal station of FGC
Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya
Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya , or FGC, is a railway company which operates several unconnected lines in Catalonia, Spain....
Lleida - La Pobla de Segur line
Lleida - La Pobla de Segur line
The railway line Ca7, commonly known as Lleida - La Pobla de Segur line is a commuter/regional line currently operated by RENFE on Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya infrastructure, and administered by the Autoritat Territorial de la Mobilitat de l'Àrea de Lleida. In 2010, the line will...
that connects the city of Lleida with those mountains.
Services
Ave High Speed LineMadrid-Barcelona high-speed rail line
The Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line is a standard gauge railway line inaugurated on 20 February 2008. Designed for speeds of and compatibility with neighbouring countries' rail systems, it connects the cities of Madrid and Barcelona, in Spain...
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- 26 trains per day to BarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
- 18 trains per day to ZaragozaZaragozaZaragoza , also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain...
, of which:- 9 continue to MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
- 2 continue to BilbaoBilbaoBilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...
- 2 continue to IrúnIrunIrun is a town of the Bidasoa-Txingudi region in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain...
- 2 continue to SevilleSevilleSeville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
- 1 continues to VigoVigoVigo is a city and municipality in north-west Spain, in Galicia, situated on the ria of the same name on the Atlantic Ocean.-Population:...
- 2 continue to MálagaMálagaMálaga is a city and a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain. This is the southernmost large city in Europe...
- 1 continues to A CoruñaA CoruñaA Coruña or La Coruña is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second-largest city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country...
- 1 continues to GijónGijónGijón , officially Gijón / Xixón, is a coastal industrial city and a municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias in Spain. Early mediaeval texts mention it as "Gigia". It was an important regional Roman city, although the area has been settled since earliest history...
- 9 continue to Madrid
Lleida - La Pobla de Segur line
Lleida - La Pobla de Segur line
The railway line Ca7, commonly known as Lleida - La Pobla de Segur line is a commuter/regional line currently operated by RENFE on Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya infrastructure, and administered by the Autoritat Territorial de la Mobilitat de l'Àrea de Lleida. In 2010, the line will...
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- 8 trains per day to BalaguerBalaguerBalaguer is the capital of the comarca of Noguera, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.It is located by the river Segre, a tributary to the Ebre....
, of which:- 3 continue to La Pobla de SegurLa Pobla de SegurLa Pobla de Segur is a town and municipality located in the comarca of Pallars Jussà, province of Lleida, Catalonia, in northern Spain. According to the 2009 census , the town has a population of 3,237 inhabitants. It is situated at the confluence of the Flamicell and Noguera Pallaresa rivers in...
- 3 continue to La Pobla de Segur
Other regional lines:
- 5 trains per day to BarcelonaBarcelonaBarcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
- 3 trains per day to ZaragozaZaragozaZaragoza , also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain...
Other transport
A bus station is currently projected immediately next to Lleida-Pirineus to replace the decaying one located in Carrer de Blondel.External links
- Trenscat.com (CatalanCatalan languageCatalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
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