Gare d'Hendaye

Hendaye
A view of the passenger building of Hendaye railway station
Location	Boulevard du Général de Gaulle, 64700 Hendaye  France
Coordinates	43°21′11″N 1°46′55″W / 43.3531°N 1.7819°W / 43.3531; -1.7819Coordinates: 43°21′11″N 1°46′55″W / 43.3531°N 1.7819°W / 43.3531; -1.7819
Elevation	9 m (30 ft)
Owned by	RFF / SNCF
Operated by	SNCF
Line(s)	Bordeaux–Irun
Services
TGV Intercités TER - Aquitaine Renfe Fret SNCF

The gare d'Hendaye is a railway station in Hendaye, Aquitaine, France. The station is located on the Bordeaux - Irun and Madrid - Hendaye railway lines. The station is served by TGV (high speed trains), Lunéa (night trains), Intercités (long distance) and TER (local) services operated by the SNCF, Trenhotel and Arco services operated by RENFE, and EuskoTren services.

The Euskotren narrow gauge services operate from a station on the forecourt of the SNCF station, for which separate ticketing is required.

The station is a border railway station where all trains have to stop, as those coming from/going into Spain have to change gauge from 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in) standard gauge to 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 ²¹⁄₃₂ in) Iberian gauge. The electric pickup supply also changes here from 1500V DC (overhead France) to 3000V DC (overhead Spain). Between the stations of Hendaye and Irun, both track gauges run together.

Train services

The following services currently call at Hendaye:

• high speed services (TGV) Paris - Bordeaux - Irun
• intercity services (Intercités) Hendaye - Bayonne - Pau - Tarbes - Toulouse
• night services (Lunéa) Paris - Orléans - Dax - Irun
• night services (Lunéa) Hendaye - Bayonne - Bordeaux - Toulouse - Marseille - Nice
• night services (Lunéa) Hendaye - Bayonne - Tarbes - Toulouse - Valence - Lyon - Geneva
• local service (TER Aquitaine) Bordeaux - Dax - Bayonne - Hendaye

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gare d'Hendaye.

• Timetables TER Aquitaine (French)