Lille–Fontinettes railway

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Lille–Fontinettes railway
File:Ligne Lille - Les Fontinettes.png
Map of line from Lille to Calais
Overview
System SNCF
Status Operational
Locale France Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Termini Gare de Lille Flandres
Gare des Fontinettes, Calais
Operation
Opened 1848
Owner RFF
Operator(s) SNCF
Technical
Line length 105 km (65 mi)
No. of tracks Double track
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) standard gauge
Electrification 25 kV 50 Hz
Route map
LGV Nord to Paris & Brussels
to Charleville-Mézières
Line 94 to Tournai
Paris–Lille railway to Amiens and Béthune
0.0 Lille Flandres
Line 75 to Kortrijk
La Madeleine
to Comines
Saint-André-lez-Lille
LGV Nord to Lille-Europe
to Haubourdin
LGV Nord to Calais-Fréthun
00.0 Lompret
Pérenchies
Prémesques
La Chapelle-d'Armentières
freight line to Wavrin
20.1 Armentières
00.0 freight line to La Gorgue
Nieppe
Steenwerck
Bailleul
Strazeele
Arras-Dunkirk railway to Béthune
46.4 Hazebrouck
to Dunkirk
Ebblinghem
Renescure
to Hesdigneul
66.4 Saint-Omer
00.0 Watten-Éperlecques
Ruminghem
Audricq
Nortkerque
Pont-d'Ardres
Les Attaques
Pont de Coulogne
Coudekerque-Branche–Fontinettes railway
to Dunkirk
104.9 Les Fontinettes
Calais-Ville
Calais-Maritime
to Channel Tunnel and London
to Eurotunnel terminal
Calais-Fréthun
Boulogne–Calais railway to Boulogne
LGV Nord to Lille

The Lille–Fontinettes railway is a French railway which runs from Gare de Lille-Flandres to Gare des Fontinettes near Calais. Electrified double track it is 105 kilometres (65 mi) long.

Completed in 1848 it was the first railway to reach the coastal port of Calais. The Paris-Lille railway had reached Lille from Paris two years previously.

In 1993 it was bypassed by LGV Nord high-speed line running from Lille-Europe to Calais-Fréthun and the Channel Tunnel. The main traffic today is freight and local TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais passenger trains.

File:Station Armentièrs.jpg
Armentièrs station located in French Flanders.