The two lines meet three kilometres (2 mi) from the village of Sant Vicenç itself, and around the station at the junction there is the barri de l'estació, a railway town.

The railway junction was repeatedly bombed by the rebel faction during the Spanish Civil War, particularly by the Aviazione Legionaria based in Palma de Mallorca – and occasionally by the Condor Legion.

The recurrent bombing of Sant Vicenç de Calders junction during the war killed a total of 83 persons and injured over 200, mostly civilians.

[1] The bombing of 8 October 1938 was one of the war's deadliest, causing 40 to 60 deaths and over 100 wounded, including numerous victims who were trampled in a subsequent stampede.

[2] The attack was carried out by a single bomber that came in from over the Mediterranean,[3] and hit a civilian passenger train that had just entered the junction on its way from Tarragona to Barcelona.