Besançon-Mouillère train station
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 View over Mouillère train station with the Besançon citadel in the background
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| IBNR | 8702820 |
| opening | 1884 |
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| architect | Alfred Ducat |
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| City / municipality | Besançon |
| Department | Doubs department |
| region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 14 '27 " N , 6 ° 2' 1" E |
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| List of train stations in France | |
The station Besancon Mouillère (French: Gare de Besancon Mouillère ) in the French city of Besancon is located at km 408.776 of the railway line Besançon-Le Locle between the stations Besançon-Viotte and Morre m at an altitude above sea level of the 249th
history
The idea of opening a train station in Besançon was born in 1840. The city's most important business people such as Amet, Bretillot, Jacquard, Lipmann and Veil-Picard supported this project. They founded a company with their personal assets as well as with borrowed capital and on February 12, 1852 received the concession to build a railway line between Besançon and Dijon . The inhabitants of the city wanted a train station near the old town, as had been done in other French cities, and so the place Mouillère was intended for the construction of the train station. However, the project was delayed due to financial difficulties, and in the end the concession was sold to PLM . PLM chose Viotte to build a wooden train station there in 1855 .
The first train to connect Besançon-Viotte station to Dole station ran on April 7, 1856 and took a little over an hour to complete the route.
In 1884, the Mouillère station was finally inaugurated and was now the starting point for the railway connection to the cities of Morteau , Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds . The building planned by the Besançon architect Alfred Ducat was made of stone and gave the lower part of the Bregille district a new look with its representative appearance. The railway line crosses the Doubs river valley at the citadel over a viaduct along the mountainside halfway up.
The station building, the tracks and the depot were built on an old and large piece of land, where there was a restaurant and which was acquired in 1875 for the purpose of building the station. The avenue of linden trees, which until then had connected the city of Besançon with the then village of Pont de Bregille and which was known for its beauty, was also cut down for this purpose. The connection between the train station and the seaside resort of Mouillère, which is important for visitors, was ensured by a service made up of four buses. At the station itself, the trade dominated, especially in wood, cattle, coal, straw, wine and beets.
The station played an important role in 1917 when American soldiers were concentrated near Valdahon during World War I. Thereafter the importance of the station declined until 1962 when it was decided to demolish the station. Other buildings were built on the site of the station, but the station was preserved in much more modest dimensions. As a result, the infrastructure owner Réseau ferré de France sold part of the site after the freight volume fell significantly due to competition from the road. In 2000, this part of the Mouillère Valley was built over with 400 apartments as part of a real estate project.
business
In 2008 the station was frequented by 526 people or 190,000 people annually. It is served by the TER trains on the Besançon – Le Valdahon – Morteau – La Chaux-de-Fonds line. Lines 7, 24, 27, 72 and C of the Besançon Ginko city bus network also serve the station.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Douté: Les 400 profils de lignes voyageurs du réseau ferré français , Ed .: La Vie du Rail , 2011, ISBN 978-2-918758-44-0 , Volume 2, p. 1651.
- ↑ Hector Tonon, Jean-François Culot, Marie-Édith Henckel, Annie Mathieu, Jacques Mathieu, Georges Bidalot, Jacqueline Bévalot, Paul Broquet, Jean-Claude Monti, Anne Porro, Jacques Breton, Jean-Claude Grappin, Pierre-Louis Bréchat, Yves Mercier and Pierre Riobé: Mémoires de Bregille , Besançon 2009 ( ISBN 978-2-87823-196-0 ), p. 94.
- ↑ a b c d Hector Tonon, Jean-François Culot, Marie-Édith Henckel, Annie Mathieu, Jacques Mathieu, Georges Bidalot, Jacqueline Bévalot, Paul Broquet, Jean-Claude Monti, Anne Porro, Jacques Breton, Jean-Claude Grappin, Pierre -Louis Bréchat, Yves Mercier and Pierre Riobé: Mémoires de Bregille , Besançon 2009 ( ISBN 978-2-87823-196-0 ), p. 95.
- ↑ Fiche horaire n ° 10 on telechargement.ter-sncf.com