Longueau–Boulogne railway

Longueau–Boulogne railway
Northern France railway network in 1853
Overview
System	SNCF
Status	Operational
Locale	France Nord-Pas-de-Calais Picardy
Termini	Gare de Longueau Gare de Boulogne-Ville
Operation
Opened	1847 to 1848
Owner	RFF
Operator(s)	SNCF
Technical
Line length	171 kilometres (106 mi)
No. of tracks	Double track
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map Legend Line from Paris-Nord 126.0 Longueau Line to Gare de Lille-Flandres and Laon 130.6 Amiens 132.6 Saint-Roch (Somme) Line to Rouen freight line to Frévent 137.5 Dreuil-lès-Amiens 140.0 Ailly-sur-Somme 144.7 Picquigny 151.7 Hangest from Canaples 158.0 Longpré-les-Corps-Saints 160.3 Long-Le Catelet 163.0 Fontaine-sur-Somme 166.7 Pont-Rémy 176.0 Abbeville to Le Tréport-Mers 183.5 Port-le-Grand 189.0 Noyelles Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme 194.3 Ponthoile-Romaine 198.9 Rue 204.1 Quend-Fort-Mahon 209.0 Conchil-le-Temple 215.0 Rang-du-Fliers-Verton 220.2 Saint-Josse from Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise 226.3 Étaples-Le Touquet 233.7 Dannes-Camiers 239.4 Neufchâtel-Hardelot from Desvres 244.6 Hesdigneul 248.4 Pont-de-Briques to Sarraz-Boumet 249.6 Outreau 254.3 Boulogne-Maritime 253.5 Boulogne-Ville to Calais

The Longueau–Boulogne railway is a French railway which runs from a junction with the Paris-Lille railway at Longueau to the coastal port of Boulogne. A double track railway it is 171 kilometres (106 miles) long. Until the start of the Eurostar service from London to Paris in 1994 via LGV Nord it was the main route for the boat trains to Paris which met the ships carrying passengers from Great Britain. As of August 2011 the line is used by Intercités services from Paris to Boulogne, TGV services from Rang-du-Fliers via Calais-Fréthun to Lille-Europe and local TER Picardy and Nord-Pas-de-Calais services.^[1]

The line was built by Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord from 1847 to 1848.^[2] The section from Longueau through Amiens and to the junction with the line to Rouen is electrified at 25 kV 50 Hz.^[3] From 2009 to 2010 the line from Boulogne to Rang-du-Fliers was also electrified to allow a TERGV service to run.^[4]

References

1. Paris-Amiens-Calais-Hazebrouck-Lille timetable (French)
2. Direction Générale des Ponts et Chaussées et des Chemins de Fer (1869) (in French). Statistique centrale des chemins de fer. Chemins de fer français. Situation au 31 décembre 1869. Paris: Ministère des Travaux Publics. pp. 146–160
3. RFF - Map of electrified railway lines PDF
4. Bernard Collardey, "Amiens - Calais : La ligne de la côte se modernise", in Rail Passion, no 158, December 2010, p. 40-57 (ISSN 1261-3665) (in French)

Coordinates: 49°51′51″N 2°21′08″E / 49.8643°N 2.3521°E