Perpignan station (French: Gare de Perpignan) is the railway station serving the city of Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitanie, southern France. Part of the station was decorated in the style of Salvador Dalí, for whom the place held special significance, having proclaimed it to be the "Centre of the Universe" after experiencing a vision of cosmogonic ecstasy there in 1963 and made a painting called La Gare de Perpignan in 1965.
The station opened in 1858 and is located on the Narbonne–Portbou railway, LGV Perpignan–Figueres and Perpignan–Villefranche-de-Conflent railway. The station is served by TGV, Intercités and TER services operated by SNCF. It is also served by the Spanish AVE high-speed service operated by Renfe with trains to Barcelona and Madrid.
Train services The following services currently call at Perpignan:Timetable search , TER OccitanieLe réseau régional de transport public, TER Occitanie, accessed 12 May 2022.
High speed services (TGV) Paris–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona High speed services (TGV) Paris–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan High speed services (AVE) Lyon–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona High speed services (TGV) Toulouse–Carcassonne–Perpignan–Barcelona High speed services (AVE) Marseille–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona–Madrid Night services (Intercités de nuit) Paris–Carcassonne–Narbonne–Cerbère Express service (TER Occitanie) Portbou–Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne–Béziers–Montpellier–Nîmes–Avignon Local service (TER Occitanie) Portbou–Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne–Toulouse Local service (TER Occitanie) Villefranche-Vernet-les-Bains–Perpignan
See also Gare de Perpignan murders List of SNCF stations in Occitanie
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