Camp de Tarragona railway station

Camp de Tarragona is a railway station which opened on 19 December 2006, on the high-speed line between Madrid and Barcelona. Situated between the municipalities of La Secuita and Perafort [ [http://paper.avui.cat/article/societat/41690/tgv/arriba/partir/davui/fins/camp/tarragona.html TGV arrives to Tarragona] ca] , some 8 km north of Tarragona itself, the new station serves an area with an estimated population of over 400,000.

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.

Pending the planned completion in late 2007 [ [http://www.lavanguardia.es/gen/20061218/51297191921/noticias/el-ave-llega-a-tarragona-lleida-madrid-barcelona-jose-montilla-generalitat-fomento-campo-magdalena-alvarez-joaquim-nadal-joan-rangel-joan-clos-girona.html Statement by Transport Minister Magdalena Álvarez reported in "La Vanguardia" (in Spanish)] ] 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.

The final completion to the French frontier is planned for 2012.

References

External links

* [http://www.trenscat.com/lav/campdetarragona_ct.html TAV in Tarragona] ca
* [http://www.fomento.es/NR/rdonlyres/858E4059-223D-45F4-9BD5-5ACD1DDBF16D/21803/0609191.pdf Ministry press notice] (pdf, in Spanish)
* [http://www.campdetarragona.tk Personal Web about the transport to/from this station]