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TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais

Website
  
http://www.sncf.com/en/trains/ter

TER | SNCF
TER is your partner for regional travel in France, combining rail and coach lines to simplify your regional travel and your connections with SNCF’s main lines.

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Track gauge
  
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ⁄2 in) standard gauge

TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais the regional rail network serving Nord-Pas-de-Calais région, France.

Network

  • Lille - Calais - Boulogne-sur-Mer (TER grande vitesse)
  • Lille - Dunkerque (TER grande vitesse)
  • Lille - Arras (TER grande vitesse)

    • Multiple units

  • SNCF Class Z 23500
  • SNCF Class Z 24500
  • SNCF Class Z 92050
  • SNCF Class X 4500
  • SNCF Class X 73500
  • SNCF Class X 76500 also called XGC X 76500
  • SNCF Class Z 26500

    • Locomotives

  • SNCF Class BB 16500
  • SNCF Class BB 66400
  • SNCF Class BB 67400

    • TER grande vitesse

    With the objective of connecting all the towns on the Northwest coast to Lille in less than an hour, the Nord-Pas de Calais région has put in place TERGV. Certain trains, with the agreement of the SNCF, use the LGV Nord from Gare de Lille-Europe to reach their destination instead of conventional lines. This enables them to connect Lille to Calais, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Dunkerque and Arras in less than an hour.

    TER-MER

    Three or four weekends per year the Nord-Pas-de-Calais regional council offers a promotion called opération TER-MER. The promotion offers return tickets to a chosen beach for €1; passengers travel to a local station from where shuttle buses guarantee an on-connection to the beach. This promotion was used by 50,000 people in 2005.

    Electrification Completed

    The railway is electrified from Gare de Calais-Ville via Gravelines to Gare de Dunkerque.

    Future projects

    The région envisages to:

  • double and electrify the line between Calais and Dunkerque
  • build two new lines between Arras and Cambrai and between Douai and Orchies
  • reopen the line between Béthune and Bruay-la-Buissière
  • increase frequency of service between Lille and Lens
  • create a new high speed regional service between Fourmies, Maubeuge and Lille, to reduce travel time from an hour and thirty minutes to forty-five minutes.

    • References

    TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais Wikipedia
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