Perpignan station
Appearance
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Location | 1 place Salvador-Dalí 66000 Perpignan Pyrénées-Orientales France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°41′47″N 2°52′48″E / 42.6965°N 2.8799°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | SNCF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operated by | SNCF | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Structure type | Ground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parking | Yes (at Parking Perpignan Centre Del Mon–EFFIA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | 87784009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 12 July 1858 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Electrified | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Perpignan station (French: Gare de Perpignan) is the railway station serving the city of Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitanie, southern France. Part of the station was decorated in the style of Salvador Dalí, for whom the place held special significance, having proclaimed it to be the "Centre of the Universe" after experiencing a vision of cosmogonic ecstasy there in 1963[1] and made a painting called La Gare de Perpignan in 1965.
The station opened in 1858 and is located on the Narbonne–Portbou railway, LGV Perpignan–Figueres and Perpignan–Villefranche-de-Conflent railway. The station is served by TGV, Intercités and TER services operated by SNCF.
Train services
[edit]The following services currently call at Perpignan:[2][3]
- High speed services (TGV) Paris–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona
- High speed services (TGV) Paris–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan
- High speed services (AVE) Lyon–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona
- High speed services (TGV) Toulouse–Carcassonne–Perpignan–Barcelona
- High speed services (AVE) Marseille–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona–Madrid
- Night services (Intercités de nuit) Paris–Carcassonne–Narbonne–Cerbère
- Express service (TER Occitanie) Portbou–Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne–Béziers–Montpellier–Nîmes–Avignon
- Local service (TER Occitanie) Portbou–Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne–Toulouse
- Local service (TER Occitanie) Villefranche-Vernet-les-Bains–Perpignan
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Perpignan train station.
- ^ Coppens, Philip. "Salvador Dalí: painting the fourth dimension". Retrieved 18 June 2012.
- ^ Timetable search, TER Occitanie
- ^ Le réseau régional de transport public, TER Occitanie, accessed 12 May 2022.