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The Barcelona–Vallès Line (Catalan: Línia Barcelona-Vallès) is an unconnected standard gauge rapid transit and commuter railway line linking Barcelona with Sabadell and Terrassa via the Collserola mountain range, in Catalonia, Spain.
Check the map and all the information you need about trains, schedules and stations from line Barcelona - Vallès S1, S2, S5, S6, S7, L6, L7, L12.
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Check the map and all the information you need about trains, schedules and stations from line S1 Barcelona Plaça Catalunya - Terrassa.
- Introduction
- Metro
- FGC
- Rodalies de Catalunya
There are three typesof trains travelling underground in Barcelona. First, the Metro service, which is operated by TMB (the same company running the bus network). They operate in a similar way as any other European metro service. It has a ridership of around 1.1 million users every day. On the opposite side of the scale, the Rodalies trains are reg...
Mosts tourists will come to Barcelona and simply use Metro —note that this is the way locals refer to it; we don’t say suburbano, metropolitano, or subte, like in other Hispanic countries. If you ask any local about Metro in English, he/she will be much more likely to understand you if you say metro rather than subway, tube or underground. Metro se...
FGC (short for Ferrocarrils the la Generalitat the Catalunya) is a rail operator owned by the Catalan Government. Unlike the Metro network, which spans under the city forming a chaotic mesh, FGC has two important lines that extend way beyond the city of Barcelona, so they are considered regional lines. These lines start somewhere in the middle of B...
We arrive now to the last rail operator in Barcelona. We’re talking about RENFE (the Spanish national rail operator), which operates the commuter rail in Barcelona under the brand Rodalies de Catalunya. Some of their rolling stock are still painted in the old red RENFE Cercanías livery, since the brand “Rodalies de Catalunya” was created by the Cat...
There are two distinct (and separate) systems: The Metro del Vallès and Línia de Balmes are 8 standard-gauge lines that run from Plaça de Catalunya railway station to Av. Tibidabo (L7, brown on the map), Sarrià (L6, purple) and Sant Cugat del Vallès (S5), and then on to Sabadell (S2) or Terrassa (S1).
Line Barcelona-Vallès. Click on the image to enlarge. The lines with the prefix L are all urban lines within the Barcelona limits. Those under the prefix S, stand for Suburban lines (heading to Sant Cugat, Sabadell, Terrassa and Universitat Autonoma). Line Llobregat-Anoia. Click on the image to enlarge.
The Barcelona–Vallès Line is an unconnected standard gauge rapid transit and commuter railway line linking Barcelona with Sabadell and Terrassa via the Collserola mountain range, in Catalonia, Spain.
