Autelbas – Longuyon railway line
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 Longwy station with forecourt 2013
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| Route number (SNCF) : | 202 000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route number : | 167 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 31.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 25 kV, 50 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | Longuyon – Mont-Saint-Martin Athus – Autelbas |
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The railway Autelbas-Longuyon is within the department Meurthe et Moselle a French two-track railway line, in the valley of the Chiers is less than 20 kilometers, the Belgian achieved border and directly to the French- Belgian - Luxembourg triangle of leads. After that, 12 kilometers to the Namur – Luxembourg railway line at Autelbas will be served by Belgian railways . Today, however, the route is no longer drivable as a whole, as an embankment has crossed the old route since the container terminal was built on the Belgian side of the border.
history
The main impetus for the construction of the line was the steel industry , which shot up here in all three countries due to the natural resources. The branching line was continued from Namur in 1862. On the French side, Longwy was reached on February 12, 1863; The international connection was established and very important, especially after the Franco-German War , as this was the only cross-border rail traffic on the French-Luxembourg border section, which has now been shortened to ten kilometers. From 1888 onwards, all international passenger traffic, such as long-distance trains from Paris to Luxembourg, was handled via this border station.
In 1873 it was sold to the Belgian state by the successor railway construction company of the provinces of Namur and Luxembourg . In 1874 a direct connection was established from Rodange to Athus.
The construction took place at the time of the strong industrialization of this region, especially for the transport of ore on the Prinz-Heinrich-Bahn , "which provided well over half of the total income of the surpluses".
The line has been electrified since September 16, 1955 to Mont-Saint-Martin, the gap to the border was closed on June 18, 1988.
The track with the flat wagons behind the light mast in the center of the picture marks the abandoned route on the border near Athus .
At the Athus train station, a Belgian “ Désiro ” crosses a Luxembourg Alstom Coradia Duplex traveling via Esch-sur-Alzette to Luxembourg (City) .
business
While on the Belgian section on weekdays, a two-hour clock is and the weekends are not served, there is the French section of an irregular sequence of moves, which also runs only on weekdays.
The extension of the route to Luxembourg was reactivated in 2004.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lexicon: Belgian Railways. Zeno.org special volume: Röll: Enzyklopädie des Eisenbahnwesen, p. 2613b (see Röll-Eisenbahnwesen Vol. 2, p. 179)
- ↑ Ed Federmeyer: The railways in Luxembourg - Volume 1, page 370 f.
- ^ Lexicon: Luxembourg Railways. Zeno.org special volume: Röll: Enzyklopädie des Eisenbahnwesens, p. 11395 (see Röll-Eisenbahnwesen Vol. 7, p. 235)
- ↑ from: Le Soir : Le rail va en France, via Aubange . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Greater Saarland / Lorraine / Luxembourg / Rhineland-Palatinate / Wallonia, French Community and German-speaking Community of Belgium, December 9, 2004, p. 15f.
literature
- La "nouvelle" line Aubange - Mont-Saint-Martin . In: Etudes et Documentation Ferroviaires; Railway - technology and operation, September 2004, No 50