Sant Andreu Comtal railway station
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Sant Andreu Comtal is an Adif
Adif
Adif, an acronym of Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias, is a Spanish state-owned company under the responsibility of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, charged with the management of most of Spain's railway infrastructure, that is the track, signalling and stations...

-operated railway station in the Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu is one of the ten districts into which Barcelona has been divided up since 1984. It was named after a former municipality in the plain of Barcelona called Sant Andreu de Palomar, the largest in the area, which makes up nowadays the bulk of a neighbourhood bearing the same name...

 district of Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona 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...

. It's served by Rodalies Barcelona
Rodalies Barcelona
Rodalies Barcelona is the commuter rail service that serves Barcelona, and its metropolitan area as well as other parts of the province.Rodalies Barcelona is made up of 13 lines, 6 of which are operated by the Spanish company RENFE and 7 by Generalitat-owned FGC. The whole network—and fare...

 and a number of regional trains from the line Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona 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...

-Portbou
Portbou
Portbou is a town in the Alt Empordà county, in Girona province, Catalonia, Spain. It has a population of 1,307 people.- Overview :It is located near the French border in the Costa Brava region, and frequently serves as a dropping off point for SNCF trains coming from Cerbère in France.Portbou...

-Cerbère
Cerbère
Cerbère is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Its inhabitants are called Cerbériens....

. Passengers can also commute here to Barcelona Metro line 1
Barcelona Metro line 1
— Line 1, shortened to L1 and known as "Hospital de Bellvitge - Fondo", coloured red and often simply called Línia vermella , is the second oldest metro line in Barcelona, after L3. It is operated by Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona . It appeared as a means to join the rail stations the city...

 station Sant Andreu
Sant Andreu (Barcelona Metro)
Sant Andreu is a station of the Barcelona Metro network, served by line L1. Named after the neighbourhood of Sant Andreu de Palomar, in the Sant Andreu district of the city, the station was built in 1968 along with Fabra i Puig and Torras i Bages. It's interconnected with nearby railway station...

. It's located completely over ground.

Sant Andreu Comtal railway station used to have up to 10 railtracks, which were decreased to 2 in year 2010 because of the 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...

 works between Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona 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...

 and the French border
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

.

See also

  • List of Rodalies Barcelona railway stations
  • Sant Andreu Arenal railway station
    Sant Andreu Arenal railway station
    Sant Andreu Arenal is a railway station in the Sant Andreu district of Barcelona. It's served by Rodalies Barcelona and one Catalunya Exprés service. Passengers can also commute here to Barcelona Metro line 1 station Fabra i Puig and the Sant Andreu bus terminal...

  • La Maquinista

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