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Northernmost and southernmost railway stations in the EU

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Doing some idle spinning of Google Earth, Søsterbekk station on the Narvik - Kiruna railway line seems to me to be the northernmost railway station in the EU.

Narvik is oft cited as the furthest north you can travel by passenger train in Norway and the EU (after Murmansk, which is in continental Europe). But it appears to be a few fractions of a degree south of the northernmost point of the line into town.

What then is the southernmost station with passenger service? I’m guessing Algeciras in Spain...?
 
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jamesontheroad said:
Doing some idle spinning of Google Earth, Søsterbekk station on the Narvik - Kiruna railway line seems to me to be the northernmost railway station in the EU.

Narvik is oft cited as the furthest north you can travel by passenger train in Norway and the EU (after Murmansk, which is in continental Europe). But it appears to be a few fractions of a degree south of the northernmost point of the line into town.

What then is the southernmost station with passenger service? I’m guessing Algeciras in Spain...?
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Do you actually mean the EU or the EEA or something else? Because Norway is in the EEA but not the EU.
 
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Stations in southern Sicily are further south than Algeciras, such as Pozzallo.

The westernmost station in the EU is Tralee, Ireland.
 
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Sadly there are no railways (except the track used for the rocket launch pad) in French Guiana.
 
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Ianno87 said:
Stations in southern Sicily are further south than Algeciras, such as Pozzallo.
The westernmost station in the EU is Tralee, Ireland.
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The southernmost stations in Sicily and Spain are further south than the northernmost in Africa.
Bizerte in Tunisia is the furthest north, but the whole coast from Algiers to Tunis overlaps the latitude of parts of southern Europe.

I expected the easternmost station would be Constanza on the Black Sea coast of Romania, or one of the minor stations on the lines north or south from there (Tulcea, Costinesti).
But the winner actually is Kitee in Karelia on the Russian border of Finland.
There's a freight branch line reaching further east to Ilomantsi.
Cyprus would trump Finland, but the railway there closed in 1951.
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If the Reunion tram-train had been built it would be the easternmost and southernmost in the EU.

Other candidates for westernmost or southernmost would be, depending on the dates of closure, the former railways on Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Azores. There is the Tenerife tram plus proposed railways for Gran Canaria and Tenerife.
 
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Since I’m already living in northern Sweden, I now have a dream summer trip forming... Sicily sounds like a very appealing end-point.
 
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paddington said:
If the Reunion tram-train had been built it would be the easternmost and southernmost in the EU.

Other candidates for westernmost or southernmost would be, depending on the dates of closure, the former railways on Guadeloupe, Martinique and the Azores. There is the Tenerife tram plus proposed railways for Gran Canaria and Tenerife.
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Actually there's a tourist railway there....
 
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