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

, 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 Ca ...

and

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-Bra ...

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 trains travelling from Calais-Ville to Hazebrouck, 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