Barcelona Train Service

Barcelona Train Service

The Spanish state railway network is run by RENFE, and Barcelona is a major centre for the same. Barcelona Train Service is available for both local and national destinations.

If you are using the trains for travel to and around Barcelona, you can either take the
The Cercanias that connect the heart of Barcelona to the exterior suburbs and also offer a good link to the airport. These trains are perfect for one-day-trips around Barcelona.
The Regionales that cover the various provinces of Spain, or
The Grandes Lineas trains that link up to the major Spanish metropolises and other cities. They provide an inter-regional network and directly connect between the cities and are faster.
There are few important stations in Barcelona, namely, Plaça Cataluya, Estació de Francia, Passeig de Gràcia, Arc de Triompf, El Clot Arago, but the chief station for national and international arrivals and departures of trains is the Estacio-Sants that is situated on the west side to the centre of the city. The intra and international locomotion via the railways would require advance reservation for your train seats. It is not difficult to find an English speaking ticket agent at the Barcelona Train Station.
Also the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC), owned by the Catalan Government operates Barcelona's far-flung commuter train service, plus two mountain railway lines and two funicular railways from the acme station of Montserrat Rack Railway.

The Metro rail network of the city is among Europe’s fastest ones. It is highly reliable and the Metro runs from Monday to Thursday and Sundays from 05am to 12 in the morning and on public Holidays, Friday and Saturday, they start from 05am and run till 02. It mainly runs in the metropolitan area of the city. There are nine separate metro lines, six of them videlicet L1, L2, L3, L4, L5 and L11 are run by Ferrocarril Metropolità de Barcelona (FMB), and the rest of the three lines L6, L7 and L8 are operated by FGC.

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