Gare de Calais-Ville

Calais-Ville station

Gare de Calais-Ville is a railway station in the city centre of Calais, France. It is the principal station for commuter and short distance rail services in Calais. Another station Calais-Fréthun,^[1] which is where longer distance services depart from, is connected by a free shuttle bus service (to meet with services to Paris).^[2] There is a third smaller station at Gare des Fontinettes.

There is a shuttle service bus from the Port of Calais to the station.

Train services

The station is served by the following services:

High speed services (TGV) Paris - Lille - Calais

Preceding station		SNCF	Following station
Terminus		TGV TGV inter-regional	Calais-Fréthun
Terminus		TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais 7	Saint-Omer toward Arras
Terminus		TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais 9	Les Fontinettes toward Dunkerque
Calais-Fréthun toward Boulogne-Ville		TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais 12	Les Fontinettes toward Lille-Flandres
Terminus		TER Picardie 24	Les Fontinettes toward Calais-Ville
Terminus		TER AUT	Calais-Fréthun
	Heritage railways
Folkestone West via Eurotunnel Shuttle		Venice Simplon Orient Express London-Paris-Rome	Paris Gare de l'Est

As of July 2011^[update] the typical weekday service pattern is

3-5 tpd (trains per day) to Dunkirk (TER line 9)^[3]
11 tpd to Calais-Frethun and Boulogne (TER line 10), some continuing to Gare d'Étaples-Le Touquet, Rang-du-Fliers-Verton and Amiens^[4]
40 tpd to St Omer, of which 34 continue to Hazebrouck and 17 of these on to Gare de Lille Flandres^[4]

There is one TGV return service via Calais-Fréthun to Gare de Lille Europe each day.^[4]