Barcelona operates a number of direct high-speed rail routes to cities in France, including Paris, Lyon and Perpignan, and more than 30 destinations across Spain, including Madrid and the south-east and southern regions. Its main termini also operate suburban and regional rail services that enable you to travel around Catalonia comfortably and conveniently.
Accessibility
ATENDO is the Spanish Railway’s personalised service to help disabled and reduced-mobility passengers and the elderly to access and move through the stations and board and alight from the trains. However, travellers requiring special assistance to communicate, eat, drink or use the toilet must travel with a companion.
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Atendo booking line: 902 240 505. Bookings must be made at least 12 hours before the train departs. In order to process your booking, please state clearly what your disability is and your journey requirements.
Sants Station and the Estació de França have a permanent Atendo service. The service can be requested without prior notice. Passengers should arrive 30 minutes before the train departs at the travel centre (centre d’atenció al client).
The central Atendo office is located at Madrid Atocha Station and opens from 6am to midnight. Tel. 917 744 040 DTS: 917 744 041. Fax: 917 744 042.
E-mail:
oca.accesibilidad@renfe.es
Important information for reduced-mobility passengers
Specially designated spaces for wheelchair passengers on trains are called plazas H. To use these spaces, wheelchairs must not exceed the following dimensions: width 700 mm, depth 1,300 mm, and height 1,400 mm.
If you need a transit wheelchair to move through the station and/or access your train, please specify when you purchase your ticket or request the Atendo service.
For medium distance (Media Distancia) trains, if you have a ticket without an allocated seat and you need to travel in a designated reduced-mobility space (plaza H), you must book it in advance by phoning 902 240 505 and arrive at the meeting point at the station at least 30 minutes before the train departs.
Estació de Barcelona Sants
Plaça dels Països Catalans, 1-7.
Time: Monday to Friday, from 4.30am to 12.30am. Saturday, Sunday and public holidays, from 5am to 12.30am.
Metro: L3/L5-Sants Estació. Bus: 27, 78, 109, 115, D40, H10, V5 and V17.
Barcelona Sants Station is the city's main railway station and most trains departing and arriving in Barcelona stop here. The station hosts suburban rail and high-speed lines with national and international destinations.
Connections:
National trains
AVE: Madrid - Barcelona - Figueres.
AVE: Sevilla - Barcelona.
AVE: Màlaga - Barcelona.
AVE: Granada - Barcelona.
Euromed: Alacant - València - Tarragona - Barcelona.
Talgo: Connecting Barcelona with other spanish cities.
Trenhotel: Connecting Barcelona with other spanish cities.
Alvía: Connecting Barcelona with other spanish cities.
Avio: Connecting Madrid and Barcelona.
Ouigo: Connecting Madrid and Barcelona.
International high speed trains Renfe-SNCF en Coopération
Paris – Barcelona.
Lyon – Barcelona.
Marseille – Barcelona.
A network of 13 cities linked all together. From Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Perpignan, Narbonne, Béziers, Agde, Sète, Montpellier, Nîmes, Avignon, Aix-en-Provence, Valence in France to Barcelona.
Regional | Surrounding areas trains
Regional trains: Lines R11, R12, R13, R14, R15 and R16 to Tarragona, Costa Daurada, Tortosa, Lleida, Girona, Figueres, Portbou and other destinations.
Surrounding areas: Lines R2, R2Nord, R2Sud, R3 and R4 to Mataró – Maçanet, Vic, Vilanova, Vilafranca – Manresa and other detinations.
Line R2Nord to the Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport.
Information and ticket sales
www.renfe.com
Accessibility details
Sants Station provides assistance to disabled passengers. There’s no need to pre-book, just go to the travel centre (oficina d’atenció al viatger) 30 minutes before your train departs.
There is also a Turisme de Barcelona tourist information office at the station.
There is a defibrillator inside the Pharmacy at the station.
The station has two entrances. The quickest way to find the travel centre is to use the entrance on Plaça Joan Peiró (where the taxi ranks are located) and walk straight ahead for about 50 metres, where you’ll also find the tourist information office.
Inside the station, there are tactile pathways on the floor.
The platforms also have tactile flooring to prevent passengers from standing too close to the platform edge.
Although the RENFE ticket vending machines have signs in Braille, they are still not accessible to blind people.
Station announcements are made in Spanish and Catalan, and, in some cases, in English and French.
Information about train arrivals and departures, as well as the platforms where they stop, is clearly indicated on screens. The information is constantly updated.
Some ticket offices are fitted with an induction loop and are clearly signed.
The entrances to Sants Station are at street level. Inside the building there are steps, escalators and lifts connecting with the lower floor where the platforms are located.
If you come to the station by Metro (lines L3 and L5) there is a lift that will leave you outside the station building. The station is easily accessible from here.
The ticket offices at Sants Station are accessible. The station has adapted toilets.
All the shops, cafeterias and kiosks inside the station have flat-floor access or ramps.
Accessible trains that stop at Sants Station: AVE, Avant, Alvia, Euromed, Arco, Alaris, Talgo, Trenhotel and middle-distance services.
Some accessible trains operate on the suburban rail lines, particularly the line to the airport and coastal services to Mataró, Blanes and Maçanet.
Check with the station for accessible trains and times.
Last update: 18/08/2023
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Estació de França
Avinguda del Marquès de l'Argentera, s/n.
Time: 4.45am to 12am.
Metro: L4-Barceloneta. Bus: 47, 59, 120, D20, H14, V13, V15, V17 i V19.
The building dates back to 1929 and is one of the most important examples of Spain's iron architecture. Two parts of Barcelona's França Station are of relevance: the large lobby covered by three vaults and the huge metal naves that cover the platforms. National and regional trains depart from this station.
National trains
Euromed: Alacant - València - Tarragona - Barcelona.
Talgo: connecting Barcelona with other spanish cities.
Regional Express: connecting Barcelona with other spanish cities.
Regional | Surrounding areas trains
Regional trains: Lines R13, R14, R15, R16 and R17 to Tarragona, Costa Daurada, Port Aventura, Tortosa, Lleida and other spanish cities.
Surrounding areas trains: Line R2Sud to Vilanova i la Geltrú, Sitges, Castelldefels and other spanish cities.
Information and ticket sales
www.renfe.com
Accessibility details
França Station provides assistance to all disabled passengers (Atendo Service). In this railway station, there’s no need to pre-book, just go to the travel centre (Oficina d’Atenció al viatger) 30 minutes before your train departs.
Its main entrance has ramps to the side of the façade with a gentle slope. The open interior spaces are accessible, and there is a mobile lift with wheels to provide access from the platform to the accessible trains. There are adapted toilet booths.
Last update: 11/09/2019
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Estació de Passeig de Gràcia
Passeig de Gràcia - Aragó, s/n.
Time: 5am to 12am.
Metro: L2/L3/L4-Passeig de Gràcia. Bus: 7, 22, 24, 39, 47, H10, V15 and V17.
Regional | Surrounding areas trains
Regional trains: Lines R11, R13, R14, R15, R16 and R17 to Tarragona, Costa Daurada, Port Aventura, Tortosa, Lleida, Girona, Figueres, Portbou and other destinations.
Surrounding areas: Lines R2, R2Nord and R2Sud to Mataró – Maçanet, Vic, Vilanova, Vilafranca – Manresa and other destinations.
Line R2Nord to the Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport.
Information and ticket sales
www.renfe.com
Accessibility details
This underground station is now accessible for wheelchair passengers following improvements completed in January 2014.
The station doesn’t offer the "Atendo" disabled assistance service, but the staff at the travel centre are available to help if required. The travel centre is next to the ticket desks on the main concourse.
The station doesn’t have public toilets but there is a bar on the concourse that has an adapted toilet for wheelchair users.
Inside the station, there are tactile pathways on the floor.
The platforms also have tactile flooring to prevent passengers from standing too close to the platform edge.
There are two lifts from the street into the station. They are located on the north and south side of the junction of Passeig de Gràcia and Carrer Aragó.
The lift on the north side connects with the main concourse where the ticket offices and travel centre are located. It is also provides the most direct access to platform 1.
The lift on the south side connects with a small lobby where you’ll find the ticket machines. It also provides direct access to platform 2 and the green line of the Metro (L3).
Southbound trains depart from platform 1: Airport, Castelldefels, Sant Vicenç de Calders, Tarragona, Tortosa and Lleida.
Northbound trains depart from platform 2: Granollers, Maçanet-Massanes, Girona and Port-Bou.
In addition to the two lifts to and from the street, there are two lifts inside the station to the platforms as well as a platform lift so passengers can negotiate a flight of steps.
The ticket offices on the main concourse are at a height of 115 cm.
Last update: 11/09/2019
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Estació de Plaça de Catalunya
Plaça de Catalunya.
Metro: L1/L3-Catalunya. Bus: 19, 22, 24, 47, 52, 55, 59, 62, 67, D50, H16, V13, V15 and V17.
Regional | Surrounding areas trains
Regional trains: Lines R12 and RG1 to Lleida, Figueres and Portbou, and other destinations.
Surroundings areas trains: Lines R1, R3 and R4 to Manresa – Lleida; Costa del Maresme – Blanes; Vilafranca del Penedès, and other destinations.
Accessibility details
This station does not provide specialised assistance for disabled passengers but security staff are available to help if required. If you have any queries, please go to the station travel centre (Oficina d'Atenció al Client).
Station announcements are made in Spanish and Catalan.
There are tactile pathways leading to the exit on Passeig de Gràcia. The station has a centre platform with tracks running on either side. There is tactile flooring running parallel to the tracks to prevent passengers from standing too close to the platform edge. There are also tactile strips running perpendicular to the platforms indicating the way to the escalators and lifts.
Although the ticket vending machines have signs in Braille, they are not accessible. Blind and partially sighted passengers will have to purchase their tickets from the ticket offices, but opening hours are limited and may be closed in the evening and at night.
The station has two lifts: one on the Ronda Universitat exit, which passengers wanting to catch a RENFE (Spanish rail) train should use; and one on Carrer Pelai, which leads to the FGC (Catalan rail) and Metro stations. There are two lifts to the platforms inside the station.
It is important to point out that not all suburban rail (rodalies) services are accessible and we recommend you check in advance if the train you want to take and your destination station are accessible.
Last update: 11/09/2019
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