Lille-Flandres station

Lille Flandres
The exterior of Gare de Lille Flandres
General information
Location	Place des Buisses 59000 Lille Nord, France
Coordinates	50°38′11″N3°4′15″E / 50.63639°N 3.07083°E / 50.63639; 3.07083
Line(s)	Paris–Lille railway
Platforms	9
Tracks	17
Other information
Station code	87286005
History
Opened	1842
Passengers
19,504,803 [1]
Services Preceding station SNCF Following station Paris-Nord Terminus TGV Croix-Wasquehal towards Tourcoing Aéroport Charles de Gaulle towards Quimper TGV inOui (Seasonal: summer) Terminus Preceding station Ouigo Following station Terminus Ouigo TGV Haute-Picardie towards Marseille Preceding station TER Hauts-de-France Following station Douai towards Paris-Nord Krono K12 Terminus Terminus Krono K40 Douai towards Saint-Quentin Krono K45 Douai towards Rouen-RD Lille-CHR towards Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise Krono K50 Terminus Lille-CHR towards Lens Krono K51 Terminus Krono K60 Orchies towards Jeumont Krono K61 Orchies towards Charleville-Mézières Armentières towards Dunkerque Krono K70 Terminus Armentières towards Calais Krono K71 Terminus Krono K80 Roubaix towards Kortrijk Citi C40 Ronchin towards Douai Citi C41 Seclin towards Lens Lille-Porte-de-Douai towards Béthune Citi C50 Terminus Lille-Porte-de-Douai towards Lens Citi C51 Terminus Citi C60 Mont-de-Terre towards Valenciennes La Madeleine towards Hazebrouck Citi C70 Terminus Terminus Proxi P80 Croix-Wasquehal towards Tourcoing Proxi P81 Lezennes towards Tournai
Location

Lille-Flandres station (French : Gare de Lille-Flandres, Dutch : Rijsel Vlaanderen) is the main railway station of Lille, capital of French Flanders. It is a terminus for SNCF Intercity and regional trains. It opened in 1842 as the Gare de Lille, but was renamed in 1993 when Lille Europe station opened. There is a 500 metres (1,600 ft) walking distance between the two stations, which are also adjacent stops on one of the lines of the Lille Metro.

Construction

The station concourse

The station was built by Léonce Reynaud and Sydney Dunnett for the CF du Nord. Construction began in 1869 and ended in 1892. The station front is the old front from Paris' Gare du Nord and was dismantled then reassembled in Lille at the end of the 19th century; an extra storey, as well as a large clock, were added to the original design. Dunnett added the Hôtel des Voyageurs in 1887, and the rooftop in 1892.

Services

Lille–Fontinettes railway
Legend
km LGV Nord to Paris & Brussels to Charleville-Mézières Line 94 to Tournai Paris–Lille railway to Amiens and Béthune 0.0 Lille Flandres Line 75 to Kortrijk La Madeleine to Comines Saint-André-lez-Lille LGV Nord to Lille-Europe to Haubourdin LGV Nord to Calais-Fréthun 000.0 000.0 Lompret Pérenchies Prémesques La Chapelle-d'Armentières freight line to Wavrin 20.1 Armentières 000.0 000.0 freight line to La Gorgue Nieppe Steenwerck Bailleul Strazeele Arras–Dunkirk railway to Béthune 46.4 Hazebrouck to Dunkerque Ebblinghem Renescure to Hesdigneul 66.4 Saint-Omer 000.0 000.0 Watten-Éperlecques Ruminghem Audruicq Nortkerque Tramway à vapeur d'Ardres à Pont d'Ardres to Ardres Pont-d'Ardres Les Attaques Pont de Coulogne Coudekerque-Branche– Fontinettes railway to Dunkirk Chemin de fer d'Anvin à Calais to Anvin 104.9 Les Fontinettes Calais St. Pierre Calais-Ville Calais-Maritime to Channel Tunnel and London to Eurotunnel Calais Terminal Calais-Fréthun Boulogne–Calais railway to Boulogne LGV Nord to Lille km
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The station is served by the following services: ^[2]

• High speed services (TGV) Paris - Lille
• High speed services (TGV) Paris - Lille - Tourcoing
• Intercity services (NMBS/SNCB) Antwerp - Ghent - Kortrijk - Mouscron - Lille
• Intercity services (NMBS/SNCB) Tournai - Lille
• Regional services (TER Hauts-de-France) Lille - Douai - Arras - Paris
• Regional services (TER Hauts-de-France) Lille - Douai - Cambrai - St-Quentin
• Regional services (TER Hauts-de-France) Lille - Douai - Arras - Amiens - Rouen
• Regional services (TER Hauts-de-France) Lille - Béthune - Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise
• Regional services (TER Hauts-de-France) Lille - Lens
• Regional services (TER Hauts-de-France) Lille - Valenciennes - Maubeuge - Jeumont
• Regional services (TER Hauts-de-France) Lille - Valenciennes - Charleville-Mézières
• Regional services (TER Hauts-de-France) Lille - Hazebrouck - Dunkerque
• Regional services (TER Hauts-de-France) Lille - Hazebrouck - Calais
• Local services (TER Hauts-de-France) Lille - Tournai

SNCB/NMBS

SNCB/NMBS Belgian Railways trains also run from here to: Courtrai/Kortrijk for example on Belgian railway line 75.

NMBS/SNCB train approaching Lille Flandres.

See also

• Lille-Europe station
• Euralille

References

1. "Fréquentation en gares". SNCF. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
2. "Plan des lignes TER Hauts-de-France" (PDF). www.ter.sncf.com (in French). Retrieved 20 April 2022.

External links

Media related to Gare de Lille-Flandres at Wikimedia Commons

• Lille-Flandres station at "Gares & Connexions", the official website of SNCF (in French)
• Official website SNCB/NMBS