Boulogne-Ville is one of the

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s serving the town

Boulogne-sur-Mer Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the C ...

, Pas-de-Calais department, northern

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. The other station is Boulogne-Tintelleries.

History

The railway reached Boulogne in 1848. Passengers had to use a goods terminal until Boulogne-Ville was built in the 1850s. The building was of red and yellow bricks on a stone base, with red, yellow and white mortar. On 12 May 1902, the

Chemin de fer de Boulogne à Bonningues The Chemin de Fer de Boulogne à Bonningues (CF de BB) was a gauge railway from Boulogne to Bonningues-lès-Ardres, Pas-de-Calais, France, where it had a connection with the Chemin de fer d'Anvin à Calais. It opened in 1900 and closed in 19 ...

(CF de BB) extended its line from

Saint-Martin-Boulogne Saint-Martin-Boulogne (; vls, Sint-Maarten bij Bonen) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography Saint-Martin-Boulogne is a farming and light industrial suburb east of Boulogne itself, at t ...

to the Quai Chanzy, outside Boulogne-Ville station. The CF de BB closed on 31 December 1935, apart from a freight service at the Bonningues-lès-Ardres end of the line. The station was destroyed during

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. Boulogne-Ville station was rebuilt in 1962–63 on a new site, on the opposite bank of the Liane.

Services

The station is situated on the Longueau-Boulogne railway, and is served by local

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services from Boulogne to Lille-Flandres, Calais to Amiens and between Boulogne and Dunkerque.Plan du réseau
TER Hauts-de-France, accessed 14 April 2022. There is also a

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service to

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via Calais-Fréthun which takes 55 minutes.

References

Sources

* Railway stations in Pas-de-Calais Railway stations in France opened in 1962 Boulogne-sur-Mer {{NordPasdeCalais-railstation-stub