Conflans-Jarny-Metz railway line
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 Former Châtel-St-Germain train station with a bridge over Rue de Lessy .
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| Route number (SNCF) : | 86,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 28.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 17 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Conflans-Jarny-Metz railway is a single-track , 29 km long railway line in Lorraine , France. Today, this branch line only serves the eight and a half kilometer north-east section Conflans-Jarny - Batilly . There is a siding from Batilly station to the Société des Véhicules Automobiles de Batilly automobile plant . The kilometrage took place from Paris-Est station via Châlons-en-Champagne and Saint-Hilaire-au-Temple.
history
On January 27, 1862, the construction of the route from Reims via Sainte-Menehould and Verdun to Metz was approved. The licensee is the Chemin de fer de l'Est . The extension towards Metz was approved by an imperial decree on June 11, 1863. But this building no longer came about. It was only after the Franco-Prussian War that the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine were able to implement the plans.
The section from Metz to Amanvillers (dt. Almansweiler) was built on behalf of and with funding from the empire or the state of Alsace-Lorraine . The operator was initially the Imperial General Directorate of the Reich Railways in Alsace-Lorraine . This was the first of many routes that could be completed for this railway company. The opening of this 15 km long section was on April 1, 1873.
The French Railway Administration continued to build the line in an easterly direction. After the 40 km long Verdun – Conflans-Jarny connection was completed on June 7, 1863, the gap was closed two weeks later: There was now a continuous line from Verdun to Metz via this single-track branch line. But the winding route could not prevail in international traffic; the route via Lérouville and Onville was preferred because the trains here in the narrow valley of the Ruisseau de Montvaux could not reach the speeds as on the competing route further south. In 1922/23 the line was expanded to two lanes.
Almanweiler was a border station between the Franco-German War and the First World War . The former state border is now the border between the departments of Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle . During the First World War, the line was an important link to the positions on the front line.
The journey time with stops at all train stations was between 40 and 45 minutes in 1917 and between 22 and 25 minutes in 1944.
A hundred years after its completion, the route was closed to passenger traffic on June 6, 1973. Freight traffic to the Société des Véhicules Automobiles de Batilly car plant is only passable within the Meurthe-et-Moselle department .
Web links
- Batilly - Metz: a petit bout de "Chemin" on the ligne de l'Argonne. Private website for this route with lots of photos and map excerpts
Individual evidence
- ^ Bulletin des lois de la République française . Bulletin N ° 11549 - Décret impérial qui approuve la convention passée, Paris 1863, pp. 138–146
- ↑ Otto Föhlinger: History of the railways in Alsace-Lorraine and their transport traffic , Strasbourg 1897, page 178
- ^ Victor von Röll : Alsace-Lorraine Railways . Volume 4. Berlin, Vienna 1913, pages 291-300.
- ^ Reichskursbuch 1917, Edition 2, Table 216a
- ^ German course book - annual timetable 1944/45 on http://pkjs.de
