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| Location | Carrer de Salvador Hedilla 08820 El Prat de Llobregat Catalonia Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°18′15.32″N2°4′23.9″E / 41.3042556°N 2.073306°E /41.3042556; 2.073306 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| System | Rodalies de Catalunyacommuter rail station TMBrapid transit station | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Parking | Several airport parking garages serving Barcelona–El Prat Airport's terminal T2 are located nearby. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | The Barcelona Metro station is fully disabled-accessible. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aeroport T2 is both aRodalies de Catalunyacommuter railstation and aBarcelona Metrostation serving terminal complex T2 ofBarcelona–El Prat Airport. They are located adjacent to the airport's terminal T2B, in the municipality ofEl Prat de Llobregat, to the southwest ofBarcelona, inCatalonia,Spain. The Rodalies de Catalunya station is the southern terminus of the current rail link coming fromEl Prat de Llobregat railway station. It is operated byRenfe Operadora and is served byBarcelona commuter rail service lineR2 Nord. The metro station is on the airport branch ofBarcelona Metro line 9 (L9) and is operated byTransports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB).
Opened in 1975, the current Rodalies de Catalunya station is the only commuter rail station serving the airport, so that it is simply known asAirport (Spanish:Aeropuerto,Catalan:Aeroport). Besides, it is due to disappear around 2022 with the construction of a new airport rail link, which will also reach airport terminal T1. The Barcelona Metro line 9 station started operating in 2016, when the line's 20-kilometre-long (12 mi) portion between the airport terminals andZona Universitària station in western Barcelona opened for passenger service as theL9 Sud ("South").
Both the Rodalies de Catalunya and the Barcelona Metro stations are located right in front of airport terminal T2B, to which it is connected by an elevatedwalkway crossing over a parking lot and a road serving terminal complex T2. The Rodalies station is located at-grade, whilst the metro station lies underground, parallel to it. Terminals T2A and T2C can be accessed on foot through terminal T2B. The Rodalies de Catalunya users heading for terminal T1, located about 1.8 kilometres (1.1 mi) away from the station,[4] need to use the airport's free shuttle bus between terminal complexes T1 and T2. The shuttle bus service runs 24 hours a day with a service pattern of 4 minutes (8:00–20:00), 7 minutes (20:00–0:00) or 20 minutes (00:00–5:00), and has stops in front of terminals T2B and T2C as well as both the arrival and departure areas of terminal T1.[5]
Asingle-trackrailway line between Barcelona–El Prat Airport and Barcelona Sants station, including the current at-grade airport station and the connecting elevated walkway to the airport terminal, was officially opened on 15 July 1975 (1975-07-15) by the then-Princes of SpainJuan Carlos andSofía. At the time it started operating, the airport station was served half-hourly by non-stopping shuttle services toBarcelona Sants, with a journey time of 14 minutes. This was therefore the firstairport rail link in Spain and one of the earliest such airport rail links in the world.[6]
On 28 May 1989 (1989-05-28), with the dismantling of the former route of theBarcelona–Mataró–Maçanet-Massanes railway through the Barcelona neighborhood ofPoblenou, the airport station began to serve as the southern terminus of allcommuter rail services running fromMataró. All those trains used theMeridiana Tunnel in central Barcelona, calling at Sants andPlaça de Catalunya stations, with an initial service frequency of 30 minutes in each direction.[7][8]
Due to the construction works of theMadrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line in Barcelona's southern accesses, the services between Mataró and the airport station were suspended on 4 December 2005 and replaced with shuttle trains between the airport andEl Prat de Llobregat railway station.[9] On 22 July 2006 (2006-07-22), a newRodalies Barcelona line numbered10 (orR10, with the currentRodalies de Catalunya designation) dedicated to serving the airport started operating. With a service frequency of 30 minutes in each direction, the new line ran between the airport station and Barcelona'sEstació de França, using theAragó Tunnel in central Barcelona, calling at Sants andPasseig de Gràcia stations.[10]
Due to construction works nearSant Andreu Comtal railway station in Barcelona, a "temporary" restructuring affecting lines R2 and R10 was implemented on 31 January 2009 (2009-01-31): the R10 was suspended and the R2 was divided into three different lines—R2, R2Nord ("North") and R2Sud ("South")—. Thus, line R2 Nord started operating at the airport station, originating the current line scheme. The R10 was initially scheduled to resume services two years later.[11]
Atunneling machine began excavating the tunnel of Barcelona Metro line 9 fromMas Blau toAirport T1 stations in March 2008, reaching the latter in April 2009. At that moment, the airport branch of Barcelona Metro line 9 was expected to open for passenger service in 2012.[12] In March 2012, theGovernment of Catalonia announced the opening date of the line's section between Airport T1 andZona Universitària stations was to be delayed until 2014, after passing a modification on the funding of several sections of the L9 in order to prioritize the arrival of the metro line at the airport.[13] In June 2014, the government announced that the Airport T1–Zona Universitària section, exceptingAeroport Terminal de Càrrega,La Ribera andCamp Nou stations, would open in the first six months of 2016.[14] The first day of passenger service was 12 February 2016.[15]
The Rodalies de Catalunya station is served half-hourly byBarcelona commuter rail service lineR2 Nord. Typical weekday services usually run between the airport andMaçanet-Massanes orSant Celoni stations, via Barcelona. However, there also exist some services between the airport andGranollers Centre railway station, specially during the weekend. All trains call atBarcelona Sants—the city's main station—andBarcelona Passeig de Gràcia—the line's station serving central Barcelona—, with an average journey time of 19 and 26 minutes, respectively.[16]
Barcelona Metro line 9 services, designatedL9 Sud ("L9 South"), rundriverless at a basic frequency of 7 minutes in each direction betweenAirport T1 andZona Universitària in western Barcelona. Additional partial services may be added if necessary, reducing the frequency to 4 minutes.[15]
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Aeroport T2 station belongs to different fare zones depending on the entity issuing the tickets. On the one hand,Rodalies de Catalunya has its own fare zone system and considers the station to be in fare zone 4 of itsBarcelona commuter rail service,[3] so that a single ticket to Barcelona (or the other way around) costs €4.1. On the other hand, theAutoritat del Transport Metropolità (ATM)—a public agency in charge of coordinating public transport operators in the Barcelona area—considers it to be in fare zone 1, in the same way as the transport stations located in the city of Barcelona and its adjacent municipalities.[2] Thus, the price of a journey between Barcelona and the airport varies significantly due to the fact that, in the case of Rodalies de Catalunya, four fare zones are crossed, though, in the case of the ATM, only one fare zone is crossed.
AlthoughTransports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), the operator of the Barcelona Metro station, uses the ATM fare zone system, the basic single ticket issued by the company is not valid at this station, and the passengers using the metro stations located at the airport terminals are required to buy a special ticket known as an airport ticket. This ticket costs €4.5 and gives access to the rest of the TMB-operated Barcelona Metro system.[17] In contrast, all multiple-time tickets and unlimited passes issued by the ATM are valid at this station, with the exception of theT-10 ten-trip ticket.[18]
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Construction works for a new, 4.5-kilometre-long (2.8 mi),double-trackrail link forBarcelona–El Prat Airport started in July 2015, with a completion date around 2022, delayed from the original 2018 completion year. The new rail link will commence atEl Prat de Llobregat railway station and will have stations at both airport terminals T1 and T2 thanks to the construction of a 2.8-kilometre-long (1.7 mi) tunnel underneath one of the airport runways,[19] replacing the current single-track line and theRodalies de Catalunya station serving the airport. The new rail link will allow an increased service frequency of 15 minutes in each direction on commuter rail services to central Barcelona.[20] There is also a project to extendBarcelona Metro line 2 (L2) southwards using the route of the L9 betweenParc Logístic andAirport T1 stations.[21]
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