# Perpignan station

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Railway station in Occitania, France

For the Salvador Dalí painting, see [La Gare de Perpignan](/source/La_Gare_de_Perpignan).

Perpignan Perpignan station General information Location 1 place Salvador-Dalí 66000 Perpignan Pyrénées-Orientales France Coordinates 42°41′47″N 2°52′48″E / 42.6965°N 2.8799°E / 42.6965; 2.8799 Owned by SNCF Operated by SNCF Lines Narbonne–Portbou railway LGV Perpignan–Figueres Perpignan–Villefranche-de-Conflent railway Platforms 4 Tracks 6 Construction Structure type Ground Parking Yes (at Parking Perpignan Centre Del Mon–EFFIA) Other information Station code 87784009 History Opened 12 July 1858 Passengers 2024 2,053,794[1] Services Preceding station SNCF Following station Narbonne towards Paris-Lyon TGV inOui Terminus Figueres–Vilafant towards Barcelona Sants Rivesaltes towards Paris-Austerlitz Intercités (night) Elne towards Cerbère Preceding station Renfe Operadora Following station Narbonne towards Lyon-Part-Dieu AVE Figueres–Vilafant towards Barcelona Sants Carcassonne towards Toulouse-Matabiau Narbonne towards Marseille-St-Charles Figueres–Vilafant towards Madrid Puerta de Atocha Preceding station TER Occitanie Following station Cerbère towards Portbou 22 Narbonne towards Avignon-Centre Elne towards Portbou 23 Rivesaltes towards Narbonne Le Soler towards Villefranche–Vernet-les-Bains 24 Terminus Elne towards Portbou 25 Rivesaltes towards Toulouse Location

**Perpignan station** ([French](/source/French_language): *Gare de Perpignan)* is the railway station serving the city of [Perpignan](/source/Perpignan), Pyrénées-Orientales department, [Occitanie](/source/Occitania_(administrative_region)), southern France. Part of the station was decorated in the style of [Salvador Dalí](/source/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD), for whom the place held special significance, having proclaimed it to be the "Centre of the Universe" after experiencing a vision of [cosmogonic](/source/Cosmogony) ecstasy there in 1963[2] and made a painting called *[La Gare de Perpignan](/source/La_Gare_de_Perpignan)* in 1965.

The station opened in 1858 and is located on the [Narbonne–Portbou railway](/source/Narbonne%E2%80%93Portbou_railway), [LGV Perpignan–Figueres](/source/LGV_Perpignan%E2%80%93Figueres) and Perpignan–Villefranche-de-Conflent railway. The station is served by [TGV](/source/TGV), [Intercités](/source/Intercit%C3%A9s) and [TER](/source/Transport_express_r%C3%A9gional) services operated by [SNCF](/source/SNCF). It is also served by the Spanish [AVE](/source/AVE) high-speed service operated by [Renfe](/source/Renfe) with trains to [Barcelona](/source/Barcelona_Sants_railway_station) and [Madrid](/source/Madrid_Atocha_railway_station).

## Train services

The following services currently call at Perpignan:[3][4]

- High speed services (*TGV*) Paris–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona

- High speed services (*TGV*) Paris–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan

- High speed services (*AVE*) Lyon–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona

- High speed services (*TGV)* Toulouse–Carcassonne–Perpignan–Barcelona

- High speed services (*AVE*) Marseille–Nîmes–Montpellier–Béziers–Perpignan–Barcelona–Madrid

- Night services (*Intercités de nuit*) Paris–Carcassonne–Narbonne–Cerbère

- Express service (TER Occitanie) Portbou–Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne–Béziers–Montpellier–Nîmes–Avignon

- Local service (TER Occitanie) Portbou–Cerbère–Perpignan–Narbonne–Toulouse

- Local service (TER Occitanie) Villefranche-Vernet-les-Bains–Perpignan

## See also

- [Gare de Perpignan murders](/source/Gare_de_Perpignan_murders)

- [List of SNCF stations in Occitanie](/source/List_of_SNCF_stations_in_Occitanie)

## References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Perpignan train station](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Perpignan_train_station).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-freq_1-0)** ["Fréquentation en gares - SNCF Open Data"](https://ressources.data.sncf.com/explore/dataset/frequentation-gares/table/?q=87784009). *ressources.data.sncf.com* (in French). Retrieved 11 March 2026.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Coppens, Philip. ["Salvador Dalí: painting the fourth dimension"](http://www.philipcoppens.com/dali.html). Retrieved 18 June 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Timetable search](https://m.ter.sncf.com/occitanie/se-deplacer/fiches-horaires) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220611211305/https://m.ter.sncf.com/occitanie/se-deplacer/fiches-horaires) 11 June 2022 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), TER Occitanie

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Le réseau régional de transport public](https://mmt.vsct.fr/sites/default/files/swt/COCT/2021-11/A3%20CARTE%20R%C3%89GION%20g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rique_0.pdf), TER Occitanie, accessed 12 May 2022.

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