Arras–Dunkirk railway

French railway

4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gaugeElectrification25 kV 50 Hz^[1]

Route map

Legend

from Paris

Paris–Lille railway to Paris

192.1

Arras

to Lille-Flandres

000.0

Bailleul-Sir-Berthoult

Farbus

Vimy

Avion

to Corbehem

to Ostricourt

and Don-Sainghin

211.3

Lens

000.0

Loos-en-Gohelle

Liévin

Bully-Grenay

to Brias

Mazingarbe

Nœux-les-Mines

Verquigneul

to Lille

229.9

Béthune

Fouquereuil

to Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise

000.0

to Armentières

to Arques

Lille–Fontinettes railway

to Lille-Flandres

264.2

Hazebrouck

Lille–Fontinettes railway

to Calais

272.7

LGV Nord to Lille-Europe

000.0

304.4

1.4

Coudekerque-Branche

to De Panne

freight line

304.8

Dunkirk

This diagram:

view
talk
edit

The Arras–Dunkirk railway is a French railway which runs from Arras to Dunkirk. Electrified double track it is 113 kilometres (70 miles) long.

Services

As of 2022^[update] the line is used for TGV services from Dunkirk and Saint-Omer to Paris via Hazebrouck and Arras, and for local TER Hauts-de-France services.^[2] A TER-GV service between Dunkirk and Lille-Europe uses the northern section of the line before accessing LGV Nord at Cassel.

History

The line was built in two stages. In 1848 the section from a junction with the Lille-Calais railway at Hazebrouck to Dunkirk was opened. The section from Arras to Hazebrouck was opened in 1861, and this became part of the route for trains between Paris and London via Calais^[3] until the Boulogne-Calais railway opened in 1867.^[4]

References

^ "RFF - Map of electrified railway lines" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-05-16. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
^ "Plan des lignes TER Hauts-de-France" (PDF). www.ter.sncf.com (in French). Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ "Calais to Hazebrouck, Dunkirk, Bethune, Lens, Arras, Amiens and Paris". Bradshaw's continental railway guide. February 1866. archive
^ "The Opening of the new railway between Boulogne and Calais". The Railway News. 12 January 1867. p. 33. archive