Besançon – Le Locle railway line

Besançon – Le Locle
Saône station building
Route number (SNCF) :	872 000
Route length:	75.98 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	30  ‰
Dual track :	No
Legend from Dole 405.76 Besançon-Viotte 218  m above sea level M. to Vesoul 407.32 Junction Voujeaucourt to Belfort 407.82 Tunnel de Beauregard (451 m) 408.78 Besançon-Mouillère 249  m above sea level M. 409.41 Doubs (119 m) 409.61 Besançon-près-de-Vaux 260  m above sea level M. 409.64 Fossé des fortifications (45 m) 410.30 Tunnel de Porte-Taillée (74 m) 410.49 Tunnel de Trois-Châtels (109 m) 411.16 Saint-Léonard tunnel (59 m) 412.06 Tunnel du Le Pavillon (328 m) 412.80 Morre 346  m above sea level M. 413.01 Tunnel de Morre (874 m) 416.06 Saone 387  m above sea level M. 421.02 Mom roll 467  m above sea level M. L'Hôpital-du-Grosbois – Lods railway from Lods 427.59 L'Hôpital-du-Grosbois 567  m above sea level M. 432.31 Etalans 599  m above sea level M. 435.76 Le Valdahon Camp Militaire 626  m above sea level M. 437.96 Valdahon 649  m above sea level M. 445.92 Avoudrey 720  m above sea level M. 452.35 Longemaison 831  m above sea level M. 452.35 La Mine de Longemaison 896  m above sea level M. 456.88 Tunnel du Tounay (431 m) 460.26 Gilley 865  m above sea level M. to Pontarlier 463.68 Rémonot 790  m above sea level M. 464.26 Tunnel de Rémonot (280 m) 469.04 Grand'Combe-Châteleu 757  m above sea level M. 471.96 Morteau 755  m above sea level M. 474.98 Doubs (51 m) 476.78 Tunnel de Lachenoy (408 m) 478.48 Villers-le-Lac 835  m above sea level M. 479.82 Tunnel de l'Essart (77 m) 480.24 Viaduc de Malpas (68 m) 480.48 Malpas Tunnel (232 m) 481.63 Tunnel du Col-des-Roches (427 m) 481.74 39.58 State border France – Switzerland ownership border RFF / SBB 907  m above sea level M. 39.26 Col-des-Roches 38.86 Le Locle - Col-des-Roches 915  m above sea level M. 37.06 Le Locle 946  m above sea level M. SBB to La Chaux-de-Fonds – Neuchâtel

The railway line Besançon-Le Locle is a standard gauge railway line in the French department of Doubs in the region Bourgogne Franche-Comte and to a small extent in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland . It belongs to the state rail infrastructure company Réseau ferré de France (RFF).

Route and history

The non-electrified, almost 76 km long route begins in Besançon on the main Dole – Belfort line . It leads via Gilley and Morteau to Brenets-Col-des-Roches to Le Locle in Switzerland. Colloquially, it is also known as the Ligne des Horlogers ("watchmaking route") due to the numerous watch manufacturers in the region around Morteau, Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds .

The Déclaration d'utilité publique was issued on June 19, 1868. Construction of the line began in 1874 and opened on August 4, 1884, including the continuation from the border station at Col-des-Roches to Le Locle , which was created by the Jura-Bern-Lucerne (JBL). The Swiss connecting route led from Le Locle to La Chaux-de-Fonds since 1857 , to Neuchâtel since 1860 and was relocated from JBL to the newly founded Jura neuchâtelois (JN) on January 1, 1886 .

In L'Hôpital-du-Grosbois , a former railway line branches off to Ornans and Lods , and in Gilley another to Pontarlier , on the Frasne – Les Verrières railway line . Passenger traffic was discontinued on both branches in 1939, and freight traffic was discontinued at the end of the 1980s. In the meantime, both branches have largely been expanded into continuous hiking trails or bike paths .

Infrastructure

The route has maximum gradients of up to 30 ‰. It is with the block manuel (BM-VU, "manually-operated block"), the cantonnement assisté par informatique (CAPI, "electronic Zugmeldeverfahren") and the cantonnement téléphonique ( "remote oral Zugmeldeverfahren") as standard.

business

The route is of secondary importance in cross-border traffic, long-distance traffic is handled via the electrified route via Frasne – Pontarlier to Neuchâtel . The line was not electrified, in contrast to the Neuchâtel – Le Locle connecting line, which has been live since October 4, 1931.

The TER Franche-Comté trains run on the route in regional traffic operated by SNCF . The X 73500 and X 76500 series are used, these replace the X 2800 . Military trains run as the only freight transport to the military camp in Valdahon.

Web links

Commons : Besançon – Le Locle railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Blog of the Besançon-Morteau route from the SNCF
• Presentation of the Comités of the Besançon-Morteau-La Chaux de Fonds line on 08/04/2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhard Douté: Les 400 profils de lignes voyageurs du réseau ferré français , La Vie du Rail, August 2011, ISBN 978-2-918758-44-0 , volume 2, page 161
2. ↑ Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, règlements, et avis du Conseil d'état, year 1868, page 360
3. ↑ Rapports et délibérations - Conseil général du Doubs, 1885/08, page 185