Perpignan station

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.

Perpignan
Gare de Perpignan
Location1 place Salvador-Dalí
66000 Perpignan France
Coordinates42.6965°N 2.8799°E / 42.6965; 2.8799
Owned byRFF / SNCF
Line(s)
Platforms4
Tracks6
Construction
Structure typeGround
ParkingYes (at Parking Perpignan Centre Del Mon–EFFIA)
Other information
Station code87784009
History
Opened12 July 1858
ElectrifiedYes
Services
Preceding station   SNCF   Following station
toward Paris-Lyon
TGVTerminus
Intercités
night trains
Elne
toward Portbou
toward Portbou
TER Occitanie L2
Elne
toward Cerbère
TER Occitanie L5
Rivesaltes
toward Narbonne
Le Soler
TER Occitanie L6Terminus
Renfe Operadora
AVE

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

The following services currently call at Perpignan:

  • 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–Limoges–Narbonne–Portbou
  • Express service (TER Occitanie) Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne–Béziers–Montpellier–Nîmes–Avignon
  • Local service (TER Occitanie) Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne
  • Local service (TER Occitanie) Villefranche-Vernet-les-Bains–Perpignan

References

  1. Coppens, Philip. "Salvador Dalí: painting the fourth dimension". Retrieved 18 June 2012.


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