Culmont-Chalindrey – Toul railway line

Culmont-Chalindrey-Toul
Toul train station around 1900
Route number (SNCF) :	032 000
Course book route (SNCF) :	formerly 15
Route length:	114 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	9  ‰
Dual track :	continuous
Legend Paris – Mulhouse railway line from Paris 307.6 Culmont - Chalindrey 307.9 Railway Culmont-Chalindrey-Gray to Gray 307.9 Is-sur-Tille – Culmont-Chalindrey railway from Dijon 310.3 Torcenay Tunnel (1115 m) 311.6 0.0 Paris – Mulhouse line to Mulhouse 0.2 Chaudenay Montlandon (PN) 10.7 Celsoy - Plesnoy 11.8 Langres – Andilly railway from Langres 11.8 Andilly 18.4 Avrecourt 21.6 Meuse-Montigny-le-Roi 21.7 Meuse (11 m) 25.5 Lécourt (PN) 30.4 Merrey 31.3 Railway line Merrey – Hymont-Mattaincourt to Mirecourt 34 A 31 36.4 Breuvannes 42.6 Levécourt Hâcourt - Graffigny Brainville (PN) 49.8 Bourmont Goncourt 59.2 Border of the Haute-Marne / Vosges department 56.5 Maas 2 × (5 m + 75 m) 58.3 Harréville-les-Chanteurs 59.8 Maas 2 × (8 m + 87 m) 63.2 Bazoilles-sur-Meuse 67.7 Meuse (75 m) Bologne – Pagny-sur-Meuse railway from Chaumont Nançois-Tronville – Neufchâteau railway line 70.3 Meuse (86m) 70.9 Neufchâteau Neufchâteau – Épinal to Épinal railway line Railway line Bologne – Pagny-sur-Meuse to Pagny-s / M 76.1 Soulosse 77.2 Viaduc de Brancourt (128 m) Brancourt (PN) 85.1 Ruppes 88.6 Punk red 89.6 Border of the Vosges / Meurthe-et-Moselle department 94.9 Barisey-la-Côte – Frenelle-Puzieux v. Vezelise 95.0 Barisey-la-Cote Bagneux - Allain 100.9 Bulligny - Crézilles 102.9 Blénod-lès-Toul Charmes-la-Côte (PN) 106.6 Toul bypass to Blainville-Damelevières 108.0 Domgermain 108.5 Toul bypass to Blainville-D. Choloy (PN) 110.4 Paris – Strasbourg railway from Paris-Est 114.0 Toul Moselle Railway line Paris – Strasbourg to Nancy Toul – Blainville-Damelevières n. Blainville-D railway line .

The Culmont-Chalindrey-Toul railway line is a two-track connection between the Paris – Strasbourg and Paris – Mulhouse lines, running almost in a north-south direction, with a length of 114 kilometers. In the south, the route cuts through the hills of the Bassigny landscape and then largely follows the valley of the upper Meuse northwards , at Merrey the route separates via Mirecourt to Nancy . Many of the former stations are no longer served, so the travel time has been halved today.

history

Routing around Toul.

The first section of this route was built from Toul to Barisey-la-Côte. After the concession was granted to the Parent-Pécher et Cie railway company in 1872, it took eight years, despite local interest, before the line from Toul to Colombey-les-Belles (via Barisey) could begin. After the death of the founder, entrepreneur and banker Nicolas Parent-Pécher, the company's rights were revoked in 1880. The construction of the line has now been carried out by the state railway company Chemin de fer de l'Est and opened a year later.

For strategic reasons, traffic around Toul was designed to be free of intersections, which necessitated the construction of a number of flyovers . The largest single structure was the 1.1 km long, dead straight Tunnel de Torcenay . The southern section between Chalindrey and Neufchâteau was declared a public supply task by law on June 15, 1878 and was also built by the French Eastern Railway and opened in autumn 1884.

traffic

Freight traffic is very important for the Lorraine region , but passenger traffic with fewer than 3,000 passengers a day between Toul and Culmont in 1993 was rather low. The passengers mainly use the long-distance trains ( TGV or Corail ), regional journeys with the rail-based TER are low.

By 2018 it will become part of the European Corridor C Antwerp – Basel / Lyon as route 1501 , which will be equipped with ETCS Level 1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ data sheet of the tunnel . Inventaire of the tunnel ferroviaires de France
2. ↑ SNCF rail network, as of April 2014  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: National Rail Network Statement, 2009 timetable , as of December 6, 2013 (English)