Tulle train station
The station Tulle is a switchback station in Tulle in southwestern France where the regelspurige railway Coutras Tulle Coutras and the railway line tulle Meymac according Meymac (near Ussel ) forks. Until 1969 it was also the through station of a narrow-gauge , 95 km long, Y-shaped network with the endpoints Uzerche , Treignac and Argentat . In this configuration, the Tulle train station was a special feature.
history
On August 20, 1871, the section of was Brive to Tulle by the railway company Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO) opened. The extension of the line from Tulle to Meymac went into operation on September 19, 1880.
The Société de Construction des Batignolles Built in the early 20th century in the Correze a network with the track width 1000 mm ( meter gauge whose operators) PO Corrèze , was (POC), a subsidiary of the PO. The main line was laid out roughly perpendicular to the existing line, in Tulle - at the same time the center of operations - both railways met. On February 14, 1904, the Tulle – Argentat section was put into operation, the line to Uzerche followed on June 30 of that year.
Between 1912 and 1960, vehicles from the meter-gauge Tramways de la Corrèze also came to Tulle. This branched off from the POC route to Argentat in Saint-Bonnet-Avalouze , and its north branch also led to Ussel.
Passenger traffic on the narrow-gauge railway ceased on November 3, 1969, and freight traffic on May 31, 1970. In 1972, their network was officially shut down.
description
The Tulle train station is at km 173.4 from Brive and at km 597.0 from Meymac. In the first case Kilometrierung in Coutras starts, the second in Paris railway station Gare d'Austerlitz . Both lines lead from the southeast into the station complex, where through trains have to turn.
Due to the limited space in Tulle and in order not to unnecessarily cross the regular-gauge tracks, the track of the narrow-gauge railway was laid under the station hall on the 93 m long house platform . It had the designation "b", like all meter gauge tracks in the station it was designated with a lower case letter . Track a was a short siding, tracks c and d butt tracks on the north side of the reception building.
The two passenger tracks 1 and 2 of the standard gauge frame the 152 m long central platform , which houses the supporting pillars of the station hall . On track 1 in the hall area, the trains on the Brive – Meymac – Ussel route turn, the trains in the opposite direction use track 2. Parallel to the south-west of these are seven standard-gauge tracks (tracks 4 to 16, only even numbers), which mainly turn of freight trains and the parking of wagons. The freight yard was on the other side of the track harp , southeast of the reception building. There, meter-gauge tracks f and g were framed by standard gauge tracks 3 and 5 - partially covered - which allowed reloading from wagon to wagon. There was also a brick reloading hall between tracks g and 9. There was a crane for six tonnes of payload on the loading line for both gauges, and a gantry crane for handling containers was added later. The facility was supplemented by a goods shed and a cattle platform . The track systems of both railways were - apart from track crossings - largely separated from each other, only on the northeast side of the loading road was a four-rail track .
For rotating the regelspurigen Tender - steam locomotives a existed turntable m with a diameter of 17.50. Since most of the trains only passed Tulle, a three-track locomotive shed was sufficient for locomotives. Responsible for their maintenance were depots Brive, Ussel. Since the direction of travel was changed in Tulle, faster tender locomotives were preferred in the direction of Brive, while tank locomotives often ran on the winding route to Ussel .
The depot of the narrow-gauge railway was about 800 m away between the standard gauge lines to Brive and Meymac, immediately behind the crossing under the latter by the meter gauge track in the direction of Argentat. It had a six-sided engine shed and a turntable (diameter 5 m). The large coal depot there lay between butt tracks of both gauges, the regular gauge branched off from the route to Brive. The treatment of the narrow-gauge vehicles was therefore also carried out in the station area, where there was a gas pump for the diesel railcars between tracks b and c .
vehicles
In the period after the Second World War , steam locomotives increasingly gave way to diesel locomotives and railcars (trains). The last steam-hauled trains were freight trains between Brive and Ussel in the late 1960s, which were pulled by type 4-141 TA six-axle tank locomotives. In 1967, before a weed- killing train, a 4-230 G came to Tulle, which, unlike the tank locomotives, had to be turned on the turntable.
In the standard gauge area, railcars (e.g. ADX2 and ABJ4 from Renault ) with sidecars and / or control cars largely took over passenger transport. The sweeping time of an RGP-2 set was only three minutes compared to at least ten minutes for trains hauled by a locomotive. Diesel locomotives of the BB 67000 , A1AA1A 68000 and CC 72000 series were used before the latter . Today, shuttle trains and multiple units of the Transport express régional (TER) Nouvelle-Aquitaine operate on the 93.4 km long Brive – Tulle – Ussel route , some of which are connected via Brive to Bordeaux-Saint-Jean or Périgueux .
On the narrow-gauge railway, diesel multiple units were used almost exclusively for passenger transport from the 1930s, but steam was used in freight transport until it was discontinued. The railcars came from the manufacturers Établissements Billard and SCF Verney , they also ran with sidecars or in multiple traction . Two four-axle diesel locomotives of the BB 400 series (BB 401 and BB 402) were procured in 1962 for freight transport and shunting . The machines built at Brissonneau et Lotz also pulled the daily pair of freight trains with passenger transport between Tulle and Argentat and later came to the Chemins de fer de Provence (CP).
Remarks
- ↑ In the 2019 timetable they are designated as tracks A and B.
Web links
- La gare de Tulle au temps du POC et du tramway (French) with a track plan from 1925 and historical photos
- POC at Tyrphon-Trains Gallery: photos from 1969
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Il ya 50 ans, c'était le début de la fin du POC in: Ferrovissime No. 100, p. 74 ff.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Tulle, une gare au parfum de paradis pour ferroviphiles in: Ferrovissime No. 98, p. 58 ff.
- ↑ Timetable for the Tulle departures , accessed on April 5, 2019
Coordinates: 45 ° 15 ′ 31 ″ N , 1 ° 45 ′ 23 ″ E