Lille–Fontinettes railway

Lille–Fontinettes railway
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 ^1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	25 kV 50 Hz
Route map Legend Legend 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.

Armentièrs station located in French Flanders.