Editing Béthune (section)

==Transport==
[[File:Pas de Calais est.png|thumb|left|250px|East of Pas-de-Calais (Béthune, Lens, Hénin-Beaumont)]]
[[Béthune station]] has seven daily TGV trains to Paris, a journey which takes 1 hour 15 minutes. There are also regular trains to Lille, Amiens, Dunkerque and several regional destinations.

Béthune is served by the [[Lens-Béthune bus network]].

By car, Béthune is accessible from the [[A26 autoroute|A26]] which intersects the [[A1 autoroute|A1]] (Lille to Paris) {{convert|42|km|0|abbr=off}} to the south-east. By road, it is 2 hours 30 minutes from [[Paris]], 1 hour from [[Calais]], 30 minutes from [[Arras]] and 40 minutes from [[Lille]]. By using the [[Channel Tunnel]] and the [[A26 autoroute|A26]], Béthune is 3 hours 30 minutes from [[London]] and 6 hours 45 minutes from [[Manchester]]. Using road connections on mainland Europe it is nearly 2 hours from [[Brussels]], 3 hours from [[Aix-La-Chapelle]], 3 hours from [[Cologne]], 8 hours 30 minutes from [[Berlin]] and 3 hours 30 minutes from [[Amsterdam]].