Marquise-Rinxent station

Marquise-Rinxent is a railway station on the Boulogne-Ville line in Calais-Maritime serving the towns Marquise and Rinxent, in the Pas-de-Calais department, in the Hauts region of northern France.

It is a station of the French National Railway Company (SNCF), served by TER Hauts-de-France trains.

From 1940, the station was heavily bombarded, particularly in the context of the Battle of Dunkirk (to prevent any reinforcements coming in), then again from 1942 as part of Operation Fortitude intended to make the Nazis believe in the imminence of a landing in the Pas de Calais .

The proximity of the Wimereux viaduct and the shelter of one of the three K5 railway guns intended to bomb London or ships that could cross the Channel caused heavy damage to the station but also to the nearby dwellings.

The current passenger building was opened in the 1950s and the freight hall closed in the 1970s.