Saint-Jean – Saint-Just rack railway

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A train at the departure platform of Saint-Just shortly after the opening, on the right the Funiculaire de Fourvière funicular

The rack railway Saint-Jean-Saint-Just (French: Chemin de fer à crémaillère Saint-Jean-Saint-Just) was a rack railway with a gauge of one meter , which the Lyon district Saint-Jean on the banks of the Saône with the districts Saint -Just and Saint-Irénée on and on the hills of the Fourvière hill . The route length was 822 m. In their place, which operates today on the same route, Funicular Funiculaire de Saint-Just (line F1).

history

Train of the funicular, which operates today instead of the rack railway.

In 1872 the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer de Lyon à Fourvière et Saint-Just was founded, which in 1878 opened an 842 m long funicular from Saint-Jean to Saint-Just. The line was double-tracked and designed in standard gauge , between the intermediate station Minimes and the mountain station the maximum gradient was 18.15 percent. The pull rope was moved by a stationary steam engine .

In 1900 the railway was closed and converted into a rack railway, which opened in the same year. Its operation was stopped on July 4, 1958 and the rack railway was again replaced by a funicular. This was completely renewed in the course of the subway construction in the old town (line D) until 1988 and now operates de facto as part of the metro network.

Infrastructure

There are two tunnels on the route, the three stations are outdoors. The valley station is located at the present-day subway station Vieux Lyon line D and, together with the access to the terrace of the Basilica of Notre Dame de Fourviere leading Funicular Funiculaire de Fourviere used (line F2). The tram to Vaugneray began at the mountain station in 1886–1954 .

Operating company

The company was in the hands of the Compagnie des chemins de fer Fourvière Ouest-Lyonnais between 1900 and 1911 and was then continued by the company Omnibus et Tramway de Lyon from 1911 to 1958 .

Rolling material

The rolling stock consisted of four electric tractors No. 1101 to 1104 from SLM Winterthur , which were delivered between 1900 and 1905 and used for passenger trains, as well as three railcars from SLM Winterthur delivered in 1900 for freight transport. The power was supplied from an overhead line via pantographs .

Remarks

  1. ↑ These are actually converted shunting locomotives ; see. also a description of the material in the original French and more detailed information on the history and offers of the SLM: www.winterthur-glossar.ch/

Web links

literature

  • Jean Arrivetz, Du Tram au Tram, publisher La Régordane, Chanac, 2001 ( ISBN 2-906984-37-X )
  • Jean Arrivetz, Histoire des transports à Lyon, Lyon, 1966
  • René Clavaud, Jacques Pèrenon and Robert Chappelet, Le chemin de fer Lyon – Vaugneray, Édition du Cabri, Breil-sur-Roya, 2007 ( ISBN 978-2-914603-36-2 )
  • Henri Domengie, Les petits trains de jadis: Sud-est de la France, Éditions du Cabri, Menton, 1985 ( ISBN 2-903310-34-3 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lyon Saint-Jean - Lyon Saint-Just. Le funiculaire à vapeur ( 1878-1900 ) at folsaintjust.free.fr, accessed March 2, 2017
  2. ↑ Jean Arrivetz, Histoire des transports à Lyon, Lyon, 1966
  3. Jump up ↑ René Clavaud, Jacques Pèrenon, Robert Chappelet, Le chemin de fer Lyon - Vaugneray, Edition du Cabri, Breil sur Roya, 2007 ( ISBN 978-2-914603-36-2 )