Chaumont – Châtillon-sur-Seine railway line

Chaumont – Châtillon-sur-Seine
Châteauvillain station on an old postcard from around 1910
Route number (SNCF) :	840,000
Course book route (SNCF) :	53 ( EST ), 25 7 ( SNCF )
Route length:	55.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	15  ‰
Dual track :	formerly yes
Legend Paris – Mulhouse railway from Mulhouse 261.8 Chaumont 260.7 Chaumont Viaduct : D 65 (formerly N 67 and N 65 ), Suize (606 m) 258, 0 Blesme-Haussignémont – Chaumont railway from St-Dizier 256.8 Villiers-le-Sec 249.5 0.0 Bricon (wedge station) 259 m 249.6 Paris – Mulhouse line to Paris-Est 2.6 depot 3.7 A 5 (50 m) 7.4 Aujon (22 m) 8.0 Châteauvillain 238 m 14.5 Latrecey 278 m ~ 18.0 Haute-Marne / Côte-d'Or department 21.9 Aube (57 m) 22.4 Agricultural cooperative 22.7 Veuxhaulles-sur-Aube 254 m 22.8 End of the route ~ 23.5 D 965 (formerly N 65 ) 250 m ~ 26.1 D 996 (formerly N 396 ) 28.8 Courban 260 m ~ 29.6 D 965 (formerly N 65) ~ 32.7 D 965 (formerly N 65) 257 m 33.0 Start of the route 33.5 silo 34.6 Ource (47 m) 35.3 Brion-sur-Ource 236 m 38.6 Adjacent railroad tracks ~ 39.9 D 965 (formerly N 65) 41.7 234.9 Saint-Julien – Gray railway line by Gray 234.4 Adjacent railroad tracks Adjacent railroad tracks 43.4 233.2 Châtillon-sur-Seine 224 m 231.2 Sainte-Colombe-sur-Seine 224 m Steel mill Railway Saint-Julien – Gray to Troyes Railway Nuits-sous-Ravières – Châtillon-sur-Seine n. Nuits-sR.

The Chaumont – Châtillon-sur-Seine railway is a single-track , non-electrified railway line in the French departments of Côte-d'Or and Haute-Marne . It connects the two railway lines Paris – Mulhouse and Troyes – Gray running here in a south-west-north-east direction .

history

Track diagram, height profile and kilometer table

The railway line went into operation on September 1, 1866. This was preceded by the application for the construction and operation as well as its approval by the Ministry of Agriculture, Finance and Public Works. This law authorized the Chemin de fer de l'Est (EST) to build and operate a large number of additional lines that considerably expanded their area of ​​operation. In Châtillon-sur-Seine , the construction of this line created a connection to the route network of the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM).

Contemporary German newspapers described this route, along with the Troyes – Gray railway line, as remarkable examples of the “unexpected speed and force” with which the French could stop a possible attack by German troops.

For the year 1920 two pairs of trains are documented on the entire route, which were en route for almost 1.5 hours.

After the takeover by the SNCF in 1938 this route was along with the in Châtillon-sur-Seine continuing railway Nuits-sous-Ravières-Châtillon-sur-Seine with the route number 25 ⁷ administered as a unit. The transport of passengers was stopped as early as mid-April 1939, the handling of goods traffic continued. Courban 's traffic has been completely suspended since the mid-2010s . The two remaining sections of the route will continue to be used for the transport of agricultural bulk goods.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Carnet de Marches-types pour trains spéciaux. Chemins de fer de EST. Materiel et traction. 1935, sheet 102
2. ↑ ^{a b} S.NCF Région de l'Est. Carnet de Profils et Schémas , 1962, sheet 138
3. ↑ Chemin de fer de à Chaumont. Déclaration d'utilité publique. , in: Annales des ponts et chaussees. Lois, ordonnances et autres actes concernant l'administration des ponts et chaussees , 12 January 1861, page 186
4. ↑ Décret impérial qui approuve la convention passée le 1er may 1863, entre le ministre de lagriculture, de commerce et des travaux publics, et la compagnie des Chemin de fer de l'Est . (XI Bull. MCXLI, No. 11.549.) Pp. 664-669
5. ↑ Frederic Jacqmin: Les Chemins de fer pendant la guerre de 1870-1871 . Collection XIX, 2016, ISBN 978-23460-7746-5 , page 264