Les Fontinettes station ( French: ''Gare des Fontinettes'') is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

in Calais, France. It is on a

triangular junction In railroad structures, and rail terminology, a wye (like the'' 'Y' ''glyph) or triangular junction (often shortened to just "triangle") is a triangular joining arrangement of three rail lines with a railroad switch (set of points) at each cor ...

, where the Coudekerque-Branche–Fontinettes railway,

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

and Boulogne–Calais railway all meet. Some trains pass through the station twice, before and after calling at Calais-Ville. The station is served by

TER Hauts-de-France TER Hauts-de-France is the regional rail network serving the region of Hauts-de-France, northern France. It is operated by the French national railway company SNCF. It was formed in 2017 from the previous TER networks TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais and ...

trains travelling from Calais-Ville to

Hazebrouck Hazebrouck (, nl, Hazebroek, , vls, Oazebroeke) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France. It was a small market town in Flanders until it became an important railway junction in the 1860s. West Flemish was the usual language until 1 ...

, Dunkirk and Boulogne. It has four platforms.

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* Railway stations in Pas-de-Calais Buildings and structures in Calais {{HautsdeFrance-railstation-stub ca:Calais#Transports