Bologne – Pagny-sur-Meuse railway line
| Bologne-Pagny-sur-Meuse | |
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 The former double-lane Maas bridge near St-Germain, which is no longer used today
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| Route number (SNCF) : | 026 000 |
| Route length: | 95 km |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Power system : | 25 kV 50 Hz ~ |
| Dual track : | formerly yes |
The Bologne – Pagny-sur-Meuse railway is a 95-kilometer, standard-gauge railway line in what is now the Grand Est region in France . It was opened between 1867 and 1873 and electrified in 1984. The route is run under the responsibility of SNCF Réseau with the number 026 000 and was operated by the TER Champagne-Ardenne until 1992 under route number 24 . Today there is no more passenger traffic. Only parts of the route are used by freight traffic. The route runs from Bologne to Neufchâteau in a north-easterly direction, the second half runs north to Pagny-sur-Meuse a few kilometers east of Toul on the Moselle .
history
The railway line was planned together with the Neufchâteau – Épinal railway line and built one after the other. On June 14, 1861, the building permit was issued by decree, and the first half of the Bologne – Neufchâteau route was opened on August 14, 1867. After completion of the second, northern half of the route to Pagny, the work continued directly from Neufchâteau in a south-south-east direction to Épinal. With these three sections around the middle center Neufchâteau connections were made to the three most important long-distance routes that had bypassed it: Paris – Strasbourg in the north, Metz – Belfort in the east and Reims – Dijon in the west. A total of three more routes to the south and north-west were to follow, which Neufchâteau had become a railway junction with six independent branches by the turn of the century.
A second track was laid in 1878 and removed again in 1944 under German occupation . In the course of the electrification of the Culmont-Chalindrey-Toul railway line , there was already an overhead line in Neufchâteau station from 1960, but the northernmost section of the line was electrified only with the exclusive use of freight traffic on the Saint-Germain-Pagny-sur-Meuse section.
Previously, the longest sections of the route had already been closed and rededicated: after the closure of passenger traffic in the eastern section in March 1969 and the northern section in May 1970, rail traffic in the central part of the northern branch between Maxey-sur-Vaise and Coussey was closed in two stages (October 1970 and January 1972) completely discontinued, the line declassified and dismantled.
Web links
- Route network from December 1898 , BnF Gallica: Carte du réseau des Chemins de fer de l'Est.
Individual evidence
- ↑ N ° 11549 - Décret impérial qui approuve la convention passée, le 1er may 1863, entre le ministre du Commerce, de l'Agriculture et des Travaux publics, et la Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est. , Imprimerie Impériale, Series XI, Volume 22, No. 1141, Pages 138-146
- ↑ Décret du 29 octobre 1970 portant déclassement de lignes de chemin de fer, sections de lignes ou raccordements . Journal officiel de la Repubilique Française, November 18, 1970, p. 10609