Les Planes (Barcelona–Vallès Line)

Les Planes
Les Planes
Metro del Vallès commuter rail station
	An FGC train at the platforms
General information
Location	Barcelona
Coordinates	41°25′38.63″N 2°05′29.40″E / 41.4273972°N 2.0915000°E
Owned by	Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya
Platforms	4
Tracks	3
Construction
Structure type	Above ground
Other information
Fare zone	1 (ATM)
History
Opened	1916
Passengers
2018	395,050
Services

Les Planes is a railway station in Les Planes, in the Serra de Collserola hills, part of the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district of Barcelona. It is served by lines S1 and S2 of the Metro del Vallès commuter rail system, which are operated by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya, who also run the station.^[2]

The station has three tracks, although the track nearest the station building is a terminal track only accessible from the south. The tracks are served by four platform faces, but only those of the island platform between the through tracks are in normal use. This platform is accessed by footbridge, stairs, and lifts.^[2]

The station building is the only example of a railway station in Catalonia executed in the modernista or art nouveau style. It opened in 1916 as the northern terminus of the first section of the line from Peu del Funicular station to the Vallès.^[2]^[3]

Les Planes railway station from outside
Scale model of the station at Catalunya en Miniatura

References[edit]

^ "Memòria de Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya" (PDF). Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya. 2018. p. 76. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Les Planes" (in Catalan). trenscat.com. Retrieved 2014-01-04.
^ "Les Planes". Transporte Barcelona (in Spanish). Retrieved 2014-01-04.