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Bellvitge railway station

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Owned by
  
Adif

Tracks
  
3

Province
  
Province of Barcelona

Operated by
  
Renfe Operadora

Opened
  
10 March 1977

Platforms in use
  
1

Bellvitge railway station

Location
  
Avinguda d'Amèrica 08907 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat Catalonia Spain

Line(s)
  
Madrid–Barcelona (PK 671.9)

Connections
  
Llobregat–Anoia Line: at Gornal Urban buses

Address
  
Av. d'Amèrica, 08907 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Owner
  
Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias

Similar
  
Bellvitge, Sant Josep, Sant Boi, Ildefons Cerdà station, Magòria‑La Campana

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. Some trains on regional line R15 also call at the station.

Opened on 10 March 1977 (1977-03-10), 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. 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 subsidiences 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.

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.

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.

References

Bellvitge railway station Wikipedia