Hendaye is a railway station in Hendaye

Hendaye

Hendaye is the most south-westerly town and commune in France, lying in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department and located in the traditional province Lapurdi of the French Basque Country...

, Aquitaine

Aquitaine

Aquitaine , archaic Guyenne/Guienne , is one of the 27 regions of France, in the south-western part of metropolitan France, along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain. It comprises the 5 departments of Dordogne, :Lot et Garonne, :Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes...

, France

France

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. The station is located on the Bordeaux - Irun

Bordeaux–Irun railway

The railway from Bordeaux to Irun is an important French 235-kilometre long railway line, that connects the southwestern city Bordeaux to northern Spain. The railway was opened in several stages between 1841 and 1864.-Route:...

 and Bilbao - Hendaye railway lines. The station is served by TGV

TGV

The TGV is France's high-speed rail service, currently operated by SNCF Voyages, the long-distance rail branch of SNCF, the French national rail operator....

 (high speed trains), Lunéa

Lunéa

Lunéa is a brand name used by France’s national railway company, SNCF, to denote nightly passenger rail services in France.-Network:The Lunéa network consists of the following lines:...

 (night trains), Intercités (long distance) and TER (local) services operated by the SNCF

SNCF

The SNCF , is France's national state-owned railway company. SNCF operates the country's national rail services, including the TGV, France's high-speed rail network...

 and Alvia

Alvia

Alvia is a high speed train in Spain used by RENFE for long distance service. The trains have the ability to use both Iberian gauge and standard gauge, which allows them to utilize the recently constructed high-speed lines for part of the journey before switching to the "classic" Iberian gauge...

 (High Speed Trains), Talgo

Talgo

Talgo is a Spanish manufacturer of railway vehicles. It is best known for a design of articulated railway passenger cars in which the wheels are mounted in pairs, but not joined by an axle, and being between rather than underneath the individual coaches...

, Arco

Arco (Renfe)

Arco is a commercial passenger train service operated in Spain by Renfe Operadora. Arco fully renovates and refurbishes Renfe's B11x-10200 series of passenger trains. New bogies, capable of working at 220 km/h, were added...

, Estrella and EuskoTren

EuskoTren

EuskoTren is a commuter rail service which operates in the Basque Country provinces of Biscay and Gipuzkoa. It is one of the three commercial brands of the public society owned by the Basque Government, Eusko Trenbideak - Ferrocarriles Vascos...

 services operated by RENFE

RENFE

Renfe Operadora is the state-owned company which operates freight and passenger trains on the 1668-mm "Iberian gauge" and 1435-mm "European gauge" networks of the Spanish national railway infrastructure company ADIF .- History :The name RENFE is derived from that of the former Spanish National...

.

The Euskotren narrow gauge services operate from a station on the forecourt of the SNCF station, for which separate ticketing is required.

The station is a border railway station where all trains have to stop, as those coming from/going into Spain

Spain

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 have to change gauge from Standard gauge

Standard gauge

The standard gauge is a widely-used track gauge . Approximately 60% of the world's existing railway lines are built to this gauge...

 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) to Iberian gauge

Iberian gauge

Iberian gauge is the name given to the track gauge most extensively used by the railways of Spain and Portugal: namely ....

 1668 mm (5 ft 5 2⁄3 in). The electric pickup supply also changes here from 1500v DC (overhead France) to 3000v DC (overhead Spain). Between the stations of Hendaye and Irun

Irun railway station

Irun is a railway station in Irun, Basque Country, Spain. The station is located on the Bordeaux - Irun, Bilbao - Hendaye and Hendaye - Madrid railway lines...

, both track gauges run together.

Train services

The following services currently call at Hendaye:

• high speed services (TGV) Paris - Bordeaux - Irun
• intercity services (Intercités) Hendaye - Bayonne - Pau - Tarbes - Toulouse
• night services (Lunéa) Paris - Orléans - Dax - Irun
• night services (Lunéa) Hendaye - Bayonne - Bordeaux - Toulouse - Marseille - Nice
• night services (Lunéa) Hendaye - Bayonne - Tarbes - Toulouse - Valence - Lyon - Geneva
• local service (TER Aquitaine) Bordeaux - Dax - Bayonne - Hendaye