Hendaye station

Other informationStation code87677005

Services

Preceding station SNCF Following station Terminus TGV inOui Saint-Jean-de-Luz-Ciboure towards Montparnasse Intercités Saint-Jean-de-Luz-Ciboure towards Toulouse Saint-Jean-de-Luz-Ciboure towards Paris-Austerlitz Intercités (night) Terminus Preceding station TER Nouvelle-Aquitaine Following station Les Deux-Jumeaux towards Bordeaux 51 Terminus Preceding station Renfe Operadora Following station Irun towards Madrid Chamartín Alvia Terminus Irun towards Barcelona Sants Irun towards A Coruña Intercity Preceding station Euskotren Trena Following station Irun Ficoba towards Lasarte-Oria Line E2 Terminus

Hendaye station (French: Gare d'Hendaye) is a railway station in Hendaye, France, on the Bordeaux-Irun and Madrid-Hendaye lines. The station is served by TGV high speed trains, Intercités de nuit 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 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre 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 supply also changes here from 1500 V DC (overhead France) to 3000 V DC (overhead Spain). Between the stations of Hendaye and Irun, both track gauges run together.

Train services

The following services currently call at Hendaye:^[1]

• high speed services (TGV) Paris - Bordeaux - Hendaye
• intercity services (Intercités) Hendaye - Bayonne - Pau - Tarbes - Toulouse
• local service (TER Aquitaine) Bordeaux - Dax - Bayonne - Hendaye

See also

• Meeting at Hendaye – the only meeting between Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco, which took place at this station on 23 October 1940
• Variable gauge

References