Lleida Pirineus ('Lleida Pyrenees') is a railway station serving the city of Lleida in Catalonia, Spain. It is located between the neighbourhoods of Pardinyes and Rambla de Ferran. Although Lleida is not located in the Pyrenees mountain range, a part of the Catalan Pyrenees is located within the province of Lleida, and the station is the terminal station of the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya Lleida - La Pobla de Segur line that connects the city with those mountains.
The station was built in 1927 and did not adopt its current official name until 2003, after renovations. It serves as a transport hub for both broad gauge and standard gauge trains, operated by both Adif-Renfe and Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya. It is the terminus of several regional railway services centered in Aragon and Catalonia.
Lleida Pirineus is also one of the stations on the Madrid–Barcelona high-speed rail line, and it was the north-eastern terminus of that line until 2008. A bus station is currently projected immediately next to the station to replace the decaying one located in Carrer de Blondel.
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