TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais was the regional rail network serving

Nord-Pas-de-Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais (); pcd, Nord-Pas-Calés); is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Hauts-de-France. It consisted of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. Nord-Pas-de-Calais ...

région, France. In 2017 it was merged into the new

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 ...

Network

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the N ...

– Calais –

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 ...

( TER grande vitesse) *

– Dunkerque ( TER grande vitesse) *

– Arras ( TER grande vitesse)

Rolling stock

Multiple units

* SNCF Class Z 23500 * SNCF Class Z 24500 * SNCF Class Z 92050 *

SNCF Class X 4500 The SNCF Class X 4500 diesel multiple units were built by ANF between 1963–1970. The X4500 class are one of four classes of similar design (X4300, X4500, X4630, X4750) known as "Caravelles". This name comes from when built the engine sound remin ...

SNCF Class X 73500 The X73500 is a Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) train type operated by the SNCF in France. They were built from 1999 to 2004 by Alsthom DDF. General Information The trains are single railcars. The units were ordered joint with Deutsche Bahn, with the ...

* 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

Schemes

TER grande vitesse

With the objective of connecting all the towns on the Northwest coast to

in less than an hour, the

Nord-Pas de Calais Nord-Pas-de-Calais (); pcd, Nord-Pas-Calés); is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Hauts-de-France. It consisted of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. Nord-Pas-de-C ...

région has put in place TERGV. Certain trains, with the agreement of the SNCF, use the

LGV Nord The Ligne à Grande Vitesse Nord (North High-Speed Line), typically shortened to LGV Nord, is a French -long high-speed rail line, opened in 1993, that connects Paris to the Belgian border and the Channel Tunnel via Lille. With a maximum speed ...

from

Lille-Europe Lille-Europe station (French: ''Gare de Lille-Europe'') is a SNCF railway station in Lille, France, on the LGV Nord high-speed railway. The station is primarily used for international Eurostar and long-distance SNCF TGV services, although some h ...

to reach their destination instead of conventional lines. This enables them to connect

to Calais,

, Dunkirk 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 Calais-Ville via Gravelines to Dunkerque.

Future projects

The region envisages to: * double and electrify the line between Calais and Dunkirk * build two new lines between Arras and Cambrai and between

Douai Douai (, , ,; pcd, Doï; nl, Dowaai; formerly spelled Douay or Doway in English) is a city in the Nord département in northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Located on the river Scarpe some from Lille and from Arras, Dou ...

and Orchies * reopen the line between

Béthune Béthune ( ; archaic and ''Bethwyn'' historically in English) is a city in northern France, sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department. Geography Béthune is located in the former province of Artois. It is situated south-east of Calais, ...

and

Bruay-la-Buissière Bruay-la-Buissière (; vls, Bruwaei, pcd, Brouay-l'Bussière) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France. Geography A former coalmining town some southwest of Béthune and southwest of ...

* increase frequency of service between

and

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* create a new high speed regional service between Fourmies, Maubeuge and

, to reduce travel time from an hour and thirty minutes to forty-five minutes.

External links

TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais website
{{Transport express régional

TER Ter or TER may refer to: Places * River Ter, in Essex, England * Ter (river), in Catalonia * Ter (department), a region in France * Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy * Ter, Ljubno, a settlement in the Municipality of Ljubno ob ...