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French railway
The
Lille?Fontinettes railway
is a French railway which runs from
Lille-Flandres station
to
Les Fontinettes station
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 the
LGV Nord
high-speed line running from
Lille-Europe
to
Calais-Frethun
and the
Channel Tunnel
. The main traffic today is freight and local
TER
Hauts-de-France
passenger trains.
Armentiers station located in
French Flanders
.
50°43′53″N
2°23′10″E
/
50.7315°N 2.3862°E
/
50.7315; 2.3862