Lleida Pirineus ("Lleida Pyrenees") is a

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serving the city of

Lleida Lleida (, ; ; '' see below'') is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital and largest town in Segrià county, the Ponent region and the province of Lleida. Geographically, it is located in the Catalan Central Depression. It ...

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. It is located between the neighbourhoods of Pardinyes and Rambla de Ferran. The first train services in Lleida began in 1860, but the station was not built until 1927, and it did not adopt its current official name until 2003, after renovations. As a transport hub connecting the interior of Spain with the Mediterranean coast, it serves both broad gauge and standard gauge trains, operated by both

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and

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. It is the terminus of several regional railway services centered in

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and Catalonia. It is also one of the stations on the

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, and it was its north-eastern terminus until 2008.Ferropedia
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Name

Although Lleida is not located in the

Pyrenees The Pyrenees are a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. They extend nearly from their union with the Cantabrian Mountains to Cap de Creus on the Mediterranean coast, reaching a maximum elevation of at the peak of Aneto. ...

mountain range, a part of the Catalan Pyrenees is located within the

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, and Lleida Pirineus station is the terminal station of

(FGC) Lleida - La Pobla de Segur line that connects the city of Lleida with those mountains.

Rail services

Other transport

A bus station is currently projected immediately next to Lleida-Pirineus to replace the decaying one located in Carrer de Blondel.

References

External links

Lleida Pirineus
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website
Lleida Pirineus
listing at

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website
Information and photos of the station
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