Bellvitge railway station

For the Barcelona Metro line 1 station, see Bellvitge (Barcelona Metro).

Bellvitge is a Rodalies de Catalunya commuter rail station serving the neighborhood of the same name, in the L'Hospitalet de Llobregat municipality, to the south-west of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It is on the conventional Madrid–Barcelona railway, between El Prat de Llobregat and Barcelona Sants, and is served by all trains on Barcelona commuter rail service lines R2 and R2 Nord, as well as some R2 Sud trains.^[5] Some trains on regional line R15 also call at the station.^[6]

Bellvitge
Rodalies de Catalunya commuter and regional rail station
A Renfe Operadora 449 Series train at the station.
General information
Location	Avinguda d'Amèrica 08907 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat Catalonia Spain
Coordinates	41°21′13.1″N 2°06′55.2″E / 41.353639°N 2.115333°E / 41.353639; 2.115333
Owned by	Adif
Operated by	Renfe Operadora
Line(s)	Madrid–Barcelona (PK 671.9)^[1]
Platforms	1 side platform 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Connections	Llobregat–Anoia Line: at Gornal Urban buses
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	A parking lot is located at each side of the station.^[2]
Accessible	No
Other information
Station code	71708^[1]
Fare zone	1 (ATM Àrea de Barcelona and Rodalies de Catalunya's Barcelona commuter rail service)^[3]^[4]
History
Opened	10 March 1977 (1977-03-10)
Services
Preceding station Rodalies de Catalunya Following station El Prat de Llobregat towards Castelldefels R2 Barcelona Sants towards Granollers Centre El Prat de Llobregat towards Barcelona–El Prat Airport R2 Nord Barcelona Sants towards Maçanet-Massanes El Prat de Llobregat towards Sant Vicenç de Calders R2 Sud Barcelona Sants towards Barcelona Estació de França El Prat de Llobregat towards Riba-roja d'Ebre R15 Suspended El Prat de Llobregat towards Barcelona–El Prat Airport R10 Barcelona Sants towards Barcelona Estació de França
Location
Bellvitge Location in the Barcelona area.

Opened on 10 March 1977 (1977-03-10),^[7] the current at-grade station is projected to be put underground together with the rest of the conventional Madrid–Barcelona railway on its way through L'Hospitalet de Llobregat in the coming years.^[8] In October 2007, the construction works of the Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line in Barcelona's southern access, which runs through an underground route parallel to the conventional line in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, caused a partial sudden collapse of one of the station's platforms. Due to precedent ground subsidence in the area, the station was shut down as a preventive measure at the moment it occurred, so that there were neither fatalities nor injured people.^[9]

Gornal station, served by Barcelona Metro line 8 and several commuter rail services, is located adjacent to Bellvitge station, on the east side of it, allowing for street-level transfers between the two stations.^[2]

Rodalies de Catalunya's Bellvitge station should not be confused with the Barcelona Metro line 1 station of the same name, which is some 750 metres (2,460 ft) to the west.^[10]

References

1. [List of railway lines and stations] (PDF) (in Spanish). Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Government of Spain. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 October 2013. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
2. Google (28 July 2015). "Bellvitge railway station and surroundings" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
3. Integrated Railway Network (PDF) (Map). Autoritat del Transport Metropolità. August 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
4. [Barcelona commuter rail service] (PDF) (Map). Rodalies de Catalunya (in Catalan). Generalitat of Catalonia. 20 July 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
5. "Schedule of lines R2, R2 Nord and R2 Sud" (PDF). Rodalies de Catalunya. Generalitat of Catalonia. Retrieved 28 July 2015.^{[permanent dead link]}
6. (PDF). Rodalies de Catalunya. Generalitat of Catalonia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 September 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
7. "Hoy entra en servicio el apeadero de Bellvitge" [New Bellvitge station open for passenger service] (PDF). La Vanguardia Española (in Spanish). 10 March 1977. p. 25. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
8. [The Ministry of Public Works and Transport goes forward with line C-2's new underground route in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat] (PDF) (Press release) (in Spanish). Ministry of Public Works and Transport. Government of Spain. 30 April 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
9. "S'esfondra parcialment l'andana de l'estació de Bellvitge situada al costat de les obres de l'AVE" [The platform closest to the AVE line of Bellvitge station partially collapses]. 324.cat (in Catalan). Televisió de Catalunya. 30 October 2007. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
10. Distances measured using Google Maps's "Distance Measurement Tool".

External links

•   Media related to Bellvitge railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Bellvitge listing at the Rodalies de Catalunya website
• Information and photos of the station at trenscat.cat (in Catalan)
• Video on train operations at the station on YouTube