Sant Vicenç de Calders railway station

Sant Vicenç de Calders is a railway station owned by Adif located in the municipality of Vendrell in the region of Baix Penedès, in the neighborhood of l'Estació in Sant Vicenç de Calders. The station is located at the junction of the lines from Barcelona-Vilafranca-Tarragona and Barcelona-Vilanova-Valls, where trains from the Barcelona suburban lines R2 and R4, the RT2 line and the regional lines R13, R14, R15, R16, and R17 of Rodalies de Catalunya, as well as Medium Distance lines, all operated by Renfe Operadora, circulate.^[1]

Sant Vicenç de Calders Station
Rodalies de Catalunya commuter and regional rail station
Sant Vicenç de Calders Station.
General information
Location	El Vendrell, (Baix Penedès), Catalonia Spain
Coordinates	41.18603°N 1.52581°E / 41.18603; 1.52581
Owned by	Adif
Operated by	Renfe Operadora
Line(s)
History
Opened	1887
Location

History

This station on the Vilafranca line and the Vilanova line entered service on April 24, 1887, when a connecting station was built between these two lines owned by the Companyia dels Ferrocarrils de Tarragona a Barcelona i França (TBF), although trains have been running in this area since 1865 when the section between Martorell and Tarragona (Barcelona-Martorell-Vilafranca-Tarragona line) was opened.^[2] The connection and construction of the station are the result of the works aimed at joining different lines owned by TBF after the absorption of the company Companyia dels Ferrocarrils de Valls a Vilanova i Barcelona (VVB), which had built the Barcelona-Vilanova-Valls line and had opened the section Calafell-Valls in 1883.^[3]

Initially, the two railway lines crossed each other via an overpass, one above the other, located very close to the actual station. The station was built in an isolated area, surrounded by fields and marshes, about three kilometers from the urban center of Sant Vicenç de Calders, a village situated atop a hill, which was then an independent municipality of Vendrell. It was situated between the tracks, three on the mountain side and three on the sea side. The connection of the two tracks and the construction of the passenger and service station building were entrusted to the engineer Eduard Maristany i Gibert. The passenger building was a single-story structure with various dependencies. The lobby, restaurant, and baggage room occupied almost the entire space. From that moment until the 1920s, the houses of the Sant Vicenç de Calders Railway Colony were gradually built. Six pavilions and three buildings endure: those of the station master, the supervisor, and the block. ^[4]

Line

• Líne 200 (Madrid-Sant Vicenç de Calders-Barcelona)
• Líne 240 (Sant Vicenç de Calders-Hospitalet de Llobregat)
• Líne 600 (Sant Vicenç de Calders-València/Tortosa)

Railway Services

It serves as the terminus for two lines, one heading towards Barcelona along the coast, the R2 Sud, and the other also heading to Barcelona but through Vilafranca del Penedès, the R4. In the case of the first line, currently, all trains have Estació de França as their destination until 2011 due to construction work in the Sant Andreu Comtal area.

Formerly, the station was named Sant Vicenç de Calders - Coma-ruga - el Vendrell, but due to the implementation of the term "Rodalia" in 1993, it was decided to shorten it to Sant Vicenç de Calders, even though it is located next to Coma-ruga.

Origin/Destination	Preceding station	Rodalies de Catalunya	Following station	Origin/Destination
Rodalia de Barcelona
terminal			Calafell	Estació de França ¹
terminal			El Vendrell	Terrassa Manresa
terminal			Calafell	Sant Andreu Comtal Granollers Centre
Rodalia del Camp de Tarragona
Port Aventura	Torredembarra		El Vendrell	L'Arboç
Serveis regionals de Rodalies de Catalunya
La Plana - Picamoixons Lleida Pirineus	Roda de Mar		terminal² Calafell Vilanova i la Geltrú Barcelona-Sants¹	Barcelona-Estació de França
Lleida Pirineus	Torredembarra		Calafell Vilanova i la Geltrú Barcelona-Sants¹
Reus Móra la Nova Flix Riba-roja d'Ebre
Tortosa Vinaròs València-Nord			Vilanova i la Geltrú Barcelona-Sants
Port Aventura
Casp Zaragoza-Delicias Madrid-Chamartín			Barcelona-Sants

1. MD: Some regional trains do not stop at Vilanova i la Geltrú, being the next or previous stop Barcelona-Sants.
2. MD: Only for trains originating from or destined for La Plana - Picamoixons or Valls.

References

1. DDAA (1994). Territory and railways: the extension of the Blanes to Lloret line. Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans. ISBN 8472832651.
2. "Get to know line R4". Rodalies de Catalunya. Generalitat de Catalunya. Archived from the original on March 24, 2010. Retrieved August 4, 2010.
3. Alcaide González, Rafael (August 1, 2005). "The railroad as a structuring element of urban morphology: The case of Barcelona 1848-1900". Scripta Nova Vol. IX, núm. 194 (65). Universitat de Barcelona. Retrieved July 23, 2010.
4. mnactec (2019-09-04). "Colònia ferroviària de Sant Vicenç de Calders" (in Catalan). Archived from the original on 2023-06-17. Retrieved 2023-06-14.