LATOUR-DE-CAROL

'Latour de Carol' (Catalan: ''La Tor de Querol'') is a village and commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales ''département'' in France, near the border with Spain and Andorra. The population in 1999 was 367.

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Transportation

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Transportation

The village's train station, 'Latour de Carol-Enveitg' is the northern terminus of a line run by RENFE (the Spanish state operator) which runs south to Barcelona, and the southern terminus of a line run by SNCF (the French state operator) which runs north to Foix and Toulouse. The station is also the western terminus of the local metre-gauge Yellow Train (French: ''Train Jaune'' / Catalan: ''Tren Groc''), which runs to Villefranche-de-Conflent (Catalan: ''Vilafranca de Conflent'') for connections to Perpignan. It is therefore unusual in being a "junction" for lines of three different gauges: metre gauge, the standard gauge of SNCF and the broad gauge (1668mm or 5 ft, 5½ in) of RENFE. The station is the closest railway station to Andorra.

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★ Break of gauge

★ Dual gauge

★ Railway station layout