Gare des Fontinettes
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Les Fontinettes railway station (French: Gare des Fontinettes) is a railway station in Calais
Calais
Calais is a town in Northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's capital is its third-largest city of Arras....

, France.

It is situated on a triangular junction where the Coudekerque-Branche–Fontinettes railway
Coudekerque-Branche–Fontinettes railway
The Coudekerque-Branche–Fontinettes railway runs along the coast in France from a junction near Gare de Coudekerque-Branche in Dunkirk to a junction near Gare des Fontinettes in Calais. It is long and unelectrified single track for much of its length, except for the first from Dunkirk which is...

, Lille–Fontinettes railway
Lille–Fontinettes railway
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 long.Completed in 1848 it was the first railway to reach the coastal port of Calais...

 and Boulogne–Calais railway
Boulogne–Calais railway
The Boulogne–Calais railway is an electrified double track railway running between the ports of Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais in France. An extension of the Longueau–Boulogne railway it meets the Lille–Fontinettes railway and Coudekerque-Branche–Fontinettes railway to Dunkirk at Gare des Fontinettes...

 all meet. Some trains pass through the station twice, before and after calling at Calais-Ville.

It is served by TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais
TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais
TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais the regional rail network serving Nord-Pas-de-Calais région, France.- Network :*Lille - Calais - Boulogne-sur-Mer *Lille - Dunkerque *Lille - Arras -Multiple units:...

 trains travelling from Calais-Ville to Lille
Lille
Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...

, Dunkirk and Boulogne. It has four platforms.

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