Bouzonville train station
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| opening | June 1, 1883 |
| Website URL | TER Lorraine |
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| City / municipality | Bouzonville |
| Department | Moselle department |
| region | Grand Est |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 17 '31 " N , 6 ° 32' 4" E |
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The Bouzonville train station (French Gare de Bouzonville , German Busendorf train station ) is the train station in the French town of Bouzonville in the Moselle department . The station has lost all of its passenger traffic except for a working pair of Thionville –Bouzonville trains and special trains between Dillingen and Bouzonville to the Good Friday market there .
history
With the opening of the Teterchen - Kedingen section of the Völklingen – Diedenhofen railway on June 1, 1883, the then German Busendorf received a railway connection. Like all railway lines in Alsace and Lorraine , the Völklingen – Diedenhofen line initially belonged to the "Railway in Alsace-Lorraine" . Heavy traffic along this route required it to be expanded to two tracks, which resulted in a further increase in transport loads.
Between 1897 and 1901 the Niedtalbahn branching off the Völklingen – Diedenhofen line in Busendorf was built, which, like the main line, was built by the Reichseisenbahnen in Alsace-Lorraine. This double-track main line was put into operation on July 1, 1901 between Dillingen and Busendorf.
After the First World War, the German-French border crossed the Niedtalbahn between the Kerprich-Hemmersdorf and Gerstlingen stations , but there was still passenger traffic between Dillingen and Bouzonville. After the reintegration of the Saar area into the German Reich on March 1, 1935, the trains from Dillingen to Bouzonville already started in Hemmersdorf , which had to be changed in Hemmersdorf. During the Second World War there was again continuous traffic from Dillingen via Bouzonville to Metz .
Passenger traffic between Bouzonville and Niedaltdorf was stopped after the end of the Second World War in 1945. In 1948 the Niedtalbahn was converted to single-track operation due to the destruction of the war.
Also due to the reorganization of the Saar area, the passenger traffic between Völklingen and Thionville gradually lost importance. On the German side, the line was largely closed until 2003; on the French side, the Falck-Hargarten-Thionville section is part of the ( Sarreguemines -) Béning-Thionville connection, which is still used extensively in freight traffic today.
In 1998 the “Good Friday Market” took place in Bouzonville for the first time, and has since attracted tens of thousands of visitors from all over the Greater Region. For this event, through special trains with passenger transport between Dillingen (Saar) and Bouzonville also ran on Good Friday .
Reception building
The station building of the Bouzonville station is still in use today. There is a ticket office and a toilet in it . The building is open Monday through Friday between 6:00 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. and is closed on weekends .
Track and platform systems
The exterior of the Bouzonville train station is largely in its original state. The metal covers of the cable harnesses, which were re-laid by the Reichsbahn during the annexation of 1940–1944, are still in the floor of the platforms and are labeled in German.
The station has three platform tracks on a house platform and an island platform and eight sidings . A large part of the track system is still occasionally used by freight trains. The special trains to Dillingen depart from the outermost platform track, the Thionville – Bouzonville train pair usually from the house platform.
traffic
Apart from the special trains to the Good Friday market, there are no scheduled passenger trains at Bouzonville station. The remaining pair of trains has now been converted to a bus connection.
To ensure connections to the Thionville railway junction, buses number 03 run from the station forecourt several times a day between Creutzwald , Bouzonville and Thionville.
Since 1998, special trains have been running between Dillingen and Bouzonville for the Bouzonville Good Friday Market. Today (2015) the special trains run between around 9 a.m. and around 6 p.m. every two hours, one pair of trains even to and from Saarbrücken Hbf .
Planning
In 2010, the mayor of Rehlingen-Siersburg and Lorraine politicians campaigned for a revitalization of the Niedtalbahn and a continuation of the route to Luxembourg .
literature
- André Schontz, Arsène Felten, Marcel Gourlot: Le chemin de fer en Lorraine. 1999, ISBN 2-87692-414-5
- Kurt Hoppstädter: The origin of the Saarland railways. Saarbrücken 1961 (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies, Vol. 2), pp. 141–142
- Stefan Schwall: The lands are mutilated by the railroad and are losing value - Kleine Dillinger Bahnhofs-Chronik. In: History and Landscape. Supplement to the Saarbrücker Zeitung, 17./18. August 1996
- Railway Atlas Germany . Verlag Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 , pp. 83, 92 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Völklingen – Thionville railway line
- ^ Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railway System
- ↑ Timetable for bus route 03 Creutzwald – Thionville – Bouzonville
- ↑ Harald Knitter: Plans: Niedtalbahn could bring commuters to Luxembourg. ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Saarbrücker Zeitung , April 14, 2010
