Igney-Avricourt train station
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 Igney-Avricourt, looking south-west
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 2 (formerly 5) |
| IBNR | 8701299 |
| opening | 1852 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | historicism |
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| City / municipality | Avricourt |
| Department | Meurthe-et-Moselle department |
| region | Grand Est |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 38 '48 " N , 6 ° 48' 21" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 283 m |
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| List of train stations in France | |
The French train station in Igney-Avricourt , which was demoted to a stop in October 2012 , has attracted national attention as a border station to Germany for many years. It is located in the Meurthe-et-Moselle / Lorraine department at 409.59 kilometers of the Paris – Strasbourg line .
location
The railway line , inaugurated in the summer of 1852, runs here in a west-east direction immediately south of the village of Avricourt , which belongs to the Moselle department . However, the railway line and the site of the station building are already located in the adjacent Meurthe-et-Moselle department to the south , where there were also some households at that time and were included in Avricourt. A little further south is the village of Igney, which, representing the few houses south of the embankment, gave its name to the double name of the station.
After the occupation of Eastern France after the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, the municipality of Avricourt belonged to the newly founded German district of Lorraine , but its train station still belonged to France. With the station building of the station German-Avricourt two kilometers east, the German railway administration created an oversized Protzbau with numerous rail tracks, and a side facing the City Avricourt railway settlement with its own Protestant church. The Igney-Avricourt station gained special significance as a border station , but lost the volume of traffic due to the border, which the new Deutsch-Avricourt station attracted.
The station building was erected south of the railway line for topographical reasons, because the terrain to the Sânon flowing through the town slopes significantly. A level crossing made it possible to cross at the same level. The road bridge that stands there today was not built until after the Second World War .
building
The station building, made of light-colored sandstone , consisted of a six- axis , two-story central building with a flat hipped roof and six-axis, but single-story extensions, also hipped roof , built parallel to the railroad. It corresponded to the design of smaller train stations along the routes of the Chemin de fer de l'Est . With the drawing of the state border immediately to the east and the upgrading to the border station, more space was needed. Multiple renovations have changed the character of this house many times.
The building was sold to private individuals together with the goods shed in the early 2010s and is no longer open to the public.
traffic
For the timetable year from summer 1862 to summer 1863, 12,495 passengers were handled at Avricourt station. During the same period, 11.6 million tons were handled in freight traffic and 131,791 tons as express goods. For 2015 the number of passengers was 30,500.
To the north, the Nouvel-Avricourt – Bénestroff railway branched off to Bénestroff , which was operated from 1864 to 1986, and to the south the 17-kilometer Igney – Avricourt – Cirey railway , which existed between 1869 and 1970.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Photo from before 1914
- ↑ Avricourt station on Bahnbilder.de
- ^ André Linard: Sarrebourg parle de sa gare: Sarrebourg, Moselle. Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Lorraine, Sarrebourg 2008, ISBN 978-29094-3342-4 , p. 191
