Brive-la-Gaillarde – Toulouse-Matabiau railway line

Brive-la-Gaillarde – Toulouse-Matabiau
Brive-la-Gaillarde, summer 2016
Route number (SNCF) :	718,000
Course book route (SNCF) :	135, 136, 137, 138, 139 (1958)
Route length:	248 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	16  ‰
Top speed:	130 km / h
Dual track :	on 89 km
Legend Nexon – Brive-la-Gaillarde railway from Nexon Coutras – Tulle railway from Coutras Railway line Les Aubrais-Orléans-Montauban-Ville-Bourbon from Les Aubrais Dépôt de Brive Brive track harp 500.0 147.6 Brive-la-Gaillarde 143 m 147.9 Coutras – Tulle railway line to Tulle 1480, Railway line Les Aubrais-Orléans – Montauban-Ville-Bourbon to Montauban-Ville-Bourbon 150.6 Tunnel du Galop (335 m) 1531 Montplaisir 207 m 155.3 Tunnel de Montplaisir (2385 m) 163.1 Turenne 151 m Tramways de la Corrèze to Beaulieu (meter gauge) 163.4 Corrèze / Lot department 168.9 Les Quatre-Routes 129 m 175.2 Saint-Denis-près-Martel 120 m 175.5 D 803 (formerly N 703 ) Railway line Souillac – Viescamp-sous-Jallès n. Viescamp-sJ. Railway line Souillac – Viescamp-sous-Jallès to Souillac 177.5 Viaduc de Floirac ( Dordogne , 163 m) 108 m 179.3 Floirac 133 m 182.7 Montvalent 170 m ~ 191.4 D 840 (formerly N 681 ) 194.2 Rocamadour-Padirac 279 m 200.5 Viaduc de Picarel ( Alzou , 160 m) ~ 201.7 D 807 (formerly N 677 ) 201.9 Gramat 305 m 212.5 Flaujac 218.8 Assier 342 m ~ 219.1 D 653 (formerly N 653 ) 225.3 Le Pournel 330 m ~ 226.5 D 802 (formerly N 122 ) 227.4 Cambes Tunnel (755 m) 229.5 Camboulit Tunnel (417 m) 231.6 Viaduc de Ceint-Eau (D 802 and Drauzou , 270 m) 235.5 Pont de Merlançon ( Célé , 50 m) Figeac – Arvant railway from Arvant ~ 237.2 D 840 (formerly N 140 ) 237.5 Figeac (wedge station) 213 m 237.8 Figeac Tunnel (1287 m) 240.1 Bouby tunnel (280 m) 241.7 Cahors – Capdenac railway line (not served) from Cahors 242.2 Tunnel de Capdenac (552 m) ~ 242.7 D 822 (formerly N 122 ) 242.8 Lot (131 m); Lot / Aveyron department 243.3 Capdenac 178 m 243.5 Railway line Capdenac – Rodez to Rodez 248.3 Tunnel de Roques (76 m) 248.5 Diège (14 m) 248.6 Tunnel de Clavel (100 m) 250.0 Tunnel de Lestifiol (108 m) 251.7 Naussac 247 m 257.1 Salles-Courbatiès 298 m 257.7 Diège (9 m) 261.3 Tunnel de Saint-Igest (777 m) 262.7 Villeneuve-d'Aveyron 340 m 270.6 Alzou (16 m) 271.0 Bascaud tunnel (60 m) 272.0 Tunnel de Lacaze (72 m) 272.5 Aveyron (45 m) ~ 2730, D 911 (formerly N 111 ) and D 922 (formerly N 122 ) 273.1 Villefranche-de-Rouergue 254 m 274.5 Pont de la Maladrésie (Aveyron, 42 m) 276.3 Aveyron (42 m) 283.1 Monteils 243 m 283.5 Aveyron (42 m) 283.6 Tunnel de Monteils (88 m) 283.9 Pont de Rigue-Rouge (Aveyron, 55 m) 284.2 Pont de Caylou (Aveyron, 39 m) 284.3 Caylou Tunnel (236 m) 284.7 Pont du Long-Col Nord (Aveyron, 55 m) 284.7 Tunnel du Long-Col (72 m) 284.9 Pont du Long-Col Sud (Aveyron, 46 m) 285.3 Pont de Falgayrolles (Aveyron, 46 m) 285.4 Tunnel du Cornu (77 m) 285.8 Tunnel de Seilhols (170 m) 286.1 Pont de Seilhols (Aveyron, 45 m) 286.4 Pont de Cabanelles (Aveyron, 39 m) 286.5 Cabanelles Tunnel (290 m) 287.7 Tunnel de Roumeguet (99 m) 287.9 Pont de Mourlesc (Aveyron, 60 m) 288.0 Tunnel de Mourlesc (245 m) 288.6 Tunnel de Baute (186 m) 289.5 Najac 205 m 289.6 Pont de Najac (Aveyron, 55 m) 289.7 Tunnel de Najac (393 m) 292.0 Tunnel de la Carrière de Marbre (212 m) 293.4 Pont de Petit-Mergieux (Aveyron, 43 m) 293.5 Tunnel de Petit-Mergieux (148 m) 293.9 Tunnel de Grand-Mergieux (338 m) 294.3 Pont de Grand-Mergieux (Aveyron, 42 m) ~ 297.5 Aveyron / Tarn-et-Garonne department 298.4 Pont de Roquedug (Aveyron) (70 m) ~ 299.5 D 958 (formerly N 658 ) 299.8 Laguépie 156 m 301.1 Pont de Laguépie (Aveyron, 82 m); Dép. Tarn-et-Garonne / Tarn 306.4 Pont de Sainte-Foy (Aveyron, 70 m); Dép. Tarn / Tarn-et-Garonne 308.4 Lexos 139 m 308.4 Railway line Lexos – Montauban-Ville-Bourbon to Montauban-Ville-Bourbon 309.2 Viaduc de Lexos (Aveyron, 68 m); Dép. Tarn-et-Garonne / Tarn 312.9 Tunnel de Haussevaisse (208 m) 319.4 Cordes-Vindrac 172 m Carmaux – Vindrac railway to Carmaux 321.8 Viaduc de la Tour (260 m) 323.8 Viaduc de la Bonixie (140 m) 326.1 Tunnel de Souel (1504 m) 327.4 Donnazac 260 m 331.2 Viaduc de Cahuzac ( Vère , 360 m) 331.8 Cahuzac 224 m 332.6 Granejouls tunnel (776 m) 338.3 Tessonnières – Albi railway from Albi 338.7 Tessonnières 152 m ~ 342.3 D 922 (formerly N 122) 342.9 Gaillac 143 m ~ 343.5 D 999B (formerly N 99 ) ~ 351.3 D 988 (formerly N 88 ) 351.9 Lisle-sur-Tarn 127 m 352.2 Viaduc du Rabitsau (83 m) 355.8 Viaduc de Saint-Géry ( Tarn , 198 m) 359.6 Rabastens-Couffouleux 117 m Railway line Montauban-Ville-Bourbon-La Crémade v. Castres 365.5 Agout (120 m) ~ 365.7 D 630 (formerly N 630 ) Steam railway Saint Sulpice – Graulhet – Laboutarié v. Laboutarié 365.9 Saint-Sulpice (Tarn) 112 m Montauban-Ville-Bourbon – La Crémade to Montaub railway line . ~ 368.2 Tarn / Haute-Garonne department 371.7 Roquesérière-Buzet 129 m 372.6 A 68 375.5 Tunnel de Seilhan (644 m) 376.5 Montastruc-la-Conseillère 181 m 379.3 A 68 380.6 Gragnague 144 m 380.9 Girou (16 m) 383.6 Tunnel de Campmas (906 m) 386.8 A 68 388.7 Montrabé 150 m 392.7 Hers-Mort (19 m) 392.8 A 62 (42 m) 3950, Bordeaux – Sète railway from / to Bordeaux-Saint-Jean Triage de Toulouse-Raynal 396.0 255.8 Bordeaux-St.-Jean junction (end of the route) Loading station for motorail trains 256.4 Toulouse-Matabiau 146 m 257.5 Jumeaux de Guilhemery tunnel (104 m) Railway line Toulouse – Bayonne to Bayonne Railway line Bordeaux – Sète to Sète

The Brive-la-Gaillarde – Toulouse-Matabiau line is a standard-gauge , non-electrified, almost 250 km long branch line in France . It connects the canton capital Brive-la-Gaillarde in the Corrèze department in the north with the capital of the administrative region Occitania , Toulouse in the Haute-Garonne department on the Canal du Midi . Before the Les Aubrais-Orléans-Montauban-Ville-Bourbon railway was completed in the first half of the 1890s , it was the shortest connection between Paris and Toulouse for 30 years .

history

Routes between Bordeaux, Lyon and Toulouse. Railway line highlighted.

The concession company Compagnie du chemin de fer grand central de France around the Duke of Morny, Charles de Morny , obtained approval in the summer of 1853 for the construction of this railway line, which was divided into three sections. The first section reached as far as the Lot south of Figeac , where lock-aided towage shipping - mainly with coal and iron - had been in operation since the 17th century . With the advent of the railroad, shipping there declined significantly and later came to a complete standstill.

This route was only a small part of the total concession. Essentially, it was about the Clermont-Ferrand-Montauban connection, which in turn is a section of the Bordeaux-Lyon line. These routes were for the department Gironde , Dordogne , Lot-et-Garonne , Tarn-et-Garonne , Haute-Vienne , Corrèze, Aveyron , Cantal Puy-de-Dôme , Haute-Loire , Haute-Garonne, Loire and Rhône configured. But numerous branch lines were also licensed.

After just three years - before the first section was completed - the concessions had to be sold to the competitor Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO) because they had taken over. The company was dissolved. PO continued to build and opened the first section just a year later, but differently than originally planned (and as shown on the map from 1857): From Gaillac, the route behind Tessonnières was not west towards Albi , but north to Cordes and Lexos , in order to meet the original route plan again at Laguépie station .

The railway age began in Brive-la-Gaillarde with the Coutras – Tulle line on September 17, 1860, and Toulouse-Matabiau station was an important transit station on the Bordeaux – Sète line as early as the mid-1850s .

Section openings

• Capdenac to Lexos (and Montauban ) on August 31, 1858,
• Brive to Capdenac, November 10, 1862
• Lexos to Toulouse , October 24, 1864.

On August 3, 1985, the Flaujac railway accident occurred on the line , in which two passenger trains collided head-on, causing a high number of fatalities.

Driving operation

Passenger and freight traffic continues to take place along the entire route. The net travel time for passenger trains is around 3.5 hours. The change always takes place in Capdenac . Currently (winter timetable 2019/20) five pairs of trains run between Brive-la-Gaillarde and Capdenac (and on to Rodez ) on weekdays and three to four pairs of trains on weekends. Between Capenac and Toulouse there are six pairs of journeys on weekdays and four at weekends, which are supplemented by around a dozen pairs of trains south of Saint-Sulpice by superimposing journeys from Castres .

The Saint-Sulpice – Matabiau section, which is the most heavily traveled, was expanded to two tracks between 2008 and 2013 between Saint-Sulpice and the northern end of the Seilhan tunnel and from the southern end of the Campmas tunnel to Toulouse-Raynal. More than 200 million euros were financed by the Midi-Pyrénées region, the state and the European Union, railway construction division.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ SNCF Region du sud-ouest. Carnet de Profils et Schémas , 1958
2. ↑ Décret impérial portant autorisation de la compagnie française de prêts á la gross. In: Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, réglements, et avis du Conseil. Paris 1853, page 373
3. ^ Convention entre le ministre des travaux publics et MM.… In: Bulletin des lois de la République française. Paris, December 1852, pp. 692-693
4. ↑ Décret impérial qui approuve la convention passée, le 11 avril 1857, entre le ministre de lagriculture, du commerce et des travaux publics et la compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans. In: Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, réglements, et avis du Conseil d'Etat , pp. 208–214
5. ↑ Horaires liO TER Brive – Figeac – Rodez du 15 December 2019 to 03 June 2020. (PDF) Accessed on January 18, 2020 (French). 
6. ↑ Horaires liO TER Aurillac – Figeac – Toulouse du 15 December 2019 to 03 July 2020. (PDF) Retrieved on January 18, 2020 (French). 
7. ↑ Horaires liO TER Saint Sulpice – Toulouse du 15 Décembre 2019 au 03 Juillet 2020. (PDF) Accessed on 18 January 2020 (French). 
8. ↑ The doublement partiel de la voie ferrée entre Toulouse and Saint-Sulpice. Plan Rail, Midi-Pyrénées 2007–2013 ( Internet Archive , French)