Château-Thierry – Oulchy-Breny railway line

Château-Thierry-Oulchy-Breny
Station Château-Thierry in 1916
Route number (SNCF) :	073 000
Course book route (SNCF) :	2 4
Route length:	28.3 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	15  ‰
Dual track :	No
Legend Railway Paris – Strasbourg from Strasbourg 0.0 Château-Thierry 63 m 0.3 Railway line Paris – Strasbourg to Paris-Est Marne (destroyed) Château-Thierry – Mareuil-sur-Ourcq railway line 5.3 Château-Thierry-les-Chesneaux 63 m ~ 9.8 Tunnel de Bézuet (now seepage pipe ; ~ 400 m) LGV Est européenne A 4 ~ 10.2 11.1 Bézu-Saint-Germain 20.3 Coincy 25.1 Trilport – Bazoches railway from Reims via Bazoches 28.3 Oulchy-Breny 87 m Trilport – Bazoches railway line to Paris-Est via Triport

The railway Château-Thierry-Oulchy-Breny was a single-track , French railway line , which shut down and is completely degraded. It enabled the connection between Château-Thierry , the sub-prefecture of the Aisne department , and La Ferté-Milon , where trains from Château-Thierry always ran through to there on the Trilport – Bazoches railway line . These two stretches can be understood as a direct continuation, as the license application always referred to the "Valley of the Ourcy between Ferté-Milon and Esternay, near or through Château-Thierry and Montmirail". Together with other routes, the Chemin de fer de l'Est was granted the concession for the construction and operation of this route on December 31, 1875 .

Passenger transport on the route ended as early as May 5, 1938. From November 12, 1954, freight traffic only took place on the eight-kilometer northern section, which was henceforth classified as a branch of the Trilport – Bazoches railway line. In 1962 this section was still in the inventory. It is not known when the route was finally closed and de-dedicated . Apparently the last freight train ran on September 30, 1996 and the line was dismantled from 2001.

Web links

• France La ligne EST 22.2 dans les années 1900 , Historical photos of the stations on this route

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SNCF Region de l'Est. Carnet de profils et schémas, 1962, page 16
2. ↑ Inventaire des tunnels ferroviaires de France , data sheet at www.tunnels-ferroviaires.org
3. ^ ^{A b} Bulletin des lois de la République française , No. 286 . No. 4906: Loi qui déclare d'utilité publique l'établissement de plusiers Chemins de fer et approuve la Convention passée avec la Compagnie de l'Est pour la concession desdits chemins de fer, page 1301
4. ↑ Journal Officiel de la république Française du 13 November 1954, page 10 676
5. ↑ SNCF Region de l'Est. Carnet de profils et schémas, 1962, page 16
6. ↑ So that it is not forgotten ... , Faszination Modellbau Friedrichshafen, 5th Nov. 2018