Camp de Tarragona is a railway station which opened on 19 December 2006, on the high-speed line between Madrid and Barcelona. |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains Events 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Madrid (pronounced in English in Spanish and colloquially in Spain) is the Capital and largest city of Spain. Barcelona ( Catalan bəɾsəˈlonə Spanish baɾθeˈlona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia Situated between the municipalities of La Secuita and Perafort[1], some 8 km north of Tarragona itself, the new station serves an area with an estimated population of over 400,000. Tarragonès is a comarca (county in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of the three comarques formed in the 1936 comarcal division of Camp Tarragona (tərəˈɣonə in Catalan) is a city located in the south of Catalonia and east of Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea.
The station complex, covering 5. 2 hectares, has eight standard-gauge tracks (four platform roads and four central through roads), two 400-metre-long island platforms, passenger handling facilities, a travel centre, shops, and parking for 648 vehicles. The standard gauge (also named the Stephenson gauge after George Stephenson, or Normal gauge) is a widely-used Rail gauge. An island platform (also known as center platform or centre platform) on a Railway is where a single platform lies between two tracks
Pending the planned completion in late 2007[2] of the next section of the Madrid – Barcelona high-speed line, between Camp de Tarragona and Barcelona Sants railway station, trains between Madrid and Barcelona change gauge at the Roda de Barà gauge-changing installation some 13 km east of Camp de Tarragona. Barcelona Sants (also known as Estació de Sants) is the name of the main Railway station in Barcelona, operated by RENFE. Rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the two parallel rails that make up a railway track. Roda de Barà is a Municipality in the ''comarca'' of the Tarragonès in Catalonia, Spain. Variable gauge axles (VGA are Axles that allow railway vehicles to pass from tracks of one Rail gauge to a different gauge
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External links
- TAV in Tarragona (Catalan)
- Ministery press notice (pdf, in Spanish)
- Personal Web about the transport to/from this station
References
- ^ TGV arrives to Tarragona (Catalan)
- ^ Statement by Transport Minister Magdalena Álvarez reported in La Vanguardia (in Spanish)