Eygurande-Merlines – Clermont-Ferrand railway line

Eygurande-Merlines-Clermont-Ferrand
Former guard house at St.-Sulpice train station, June 2014
Route number (SNCF) :	711,000
Course book route (SNCF) :	130, 131 (1959)
Route length:	86.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	25  ‰
Dual track :	formerly yes; still today between Volvic and Clermont-Ferrand
Legend Le Palais – Eygurande-Merlines railway from Limoges 514.7 420.7 Eygurande merlines 714 m Bourges – Miécaze railway to Montluçon Railway line Bourges – Miécaze to Miécaze u. Neussargues 423.5 La Vervialle tunnel (133 m) 423.6 Viaduc La Vervialle ( Chavanon , 135 m) Corrèze / Puy-de-Dôme department 424.6 La Cellette Clidane (7 ×) 427.0 A 89 , Viaduc de la Clidane Clidane 429.7 Bourg-Lastic-Messeix 698 m Clidane 430.2 Tunnel de La Ceppe (68 m) Clidane (3 ×) 434.8 Saint-Sulpice Puy-de-Dôme 805 m Clidane (8 ×) 442.2 Laqueuille – Mont-Dore Le Mont-Dore railway line 442.7 Laqueuille 942 m ~ 445.1 N 89 450.4 Bourgeade 827 m Miouze (4 ×) ~ 461.7 D 986 formerly N 686 461.8 La Miouze-Rochefort 694 m 464.0 Sioule (8 m) 465.6 Les Rosiers-sur-Sioule 678 m ~ 271.1 D 941 formerly N 141b (today overpass) 468.6 Pontgibaud 672 m 474.9 Saint-Ours-les-Roches 821 m 478 D 943 formerly N 141 478.3 Le Vauriat 877 m Lapeyrouse – Volvic railway from Lapeyrouse 487.0 Volvic 760 m 491.3 Chanat 702 m 493.2 Tunnel de l'Étang (106 m) 495.4 Tunnel du Varou (395 m) 496.6 Tete-Noire Tunnel (200 m) 497.0 Tunnel de Puy-Charmont (186 m) 498.3 Durtol-Nohanent 536 m 501.5 Viaduc de Royat (166 m) 501.9 Royat-Chamalières 456 m 505.7 Clermont-La Rotonde 379 m 506.8 Cevennes Railway from Nîmes 507.2 419.3 Clermont-Ferrand 358 m Clermont-Ferrand – Saint-Just-sur-Loire n. St-Étienne railway line Cevennes Railway to Riom

The Eygurande-Merlines – Clermont-Ferrand railway is an 86 km long, partly double-track railway line in central France . Originally intended as an east-west main line between Grenoble and Bordeaux , it is only of regional importance today and is sometimes no longer served. The topographically demanding terrain required the construction of numerous tunnels and viaducts.

history

The concessionaires around Guillaume Narjot de Toucy form the Compagnie de Clermont à Tulle (CCT), which at the same time applied for the Le Palais – Eygurande – Merlines , Bourges – Miécaze and Tulle – Meymac railway lines in 1872 . Previously, exploratory talks had been held in October 1867 with Jean-Louis Forcade de la Roquette, Miniter for Public Transport, and at the end of January 1868 with the city leaders of the cities of Clermont-Ferrand and Tulle .

Like many other railway companies, the financial ceiling for the CCT was too thin; the company could not finish the route construction. This was taken over by the state railway administration in 1877 and the line was opened for public transport on June 6, 1881. The law did not provide for the French state to maintain railway lines. It was therefore sold on June 28, 1883 to the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans , which was already operating several other routes around it.

The last track maintenance work took place in summer 2012. Due to an accident that occurred on September 11th, the work had to be temporarily stopped. The reopening was therefore delayed by a few months. On July 6, 2014, the Eygurande-Merlines-Ussel section was closed permanently by the SNCF . This means that the connection from Bordeaux to Clermont-Ferrand and Lyon via this route is no longer possible. Suburban traffic with Clermont-Ferrand was also reduced in 2012/13.

Web links

Commons : Eygurande-Merlines – Clermont-Ferrand railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SNCF Region du Sud-Est. Carnet de Profils et Schémas , 1959
2. ↑ Charles of Cognets: De la toile aux chemins de fer: L'extension nationale d'une entreprise bretonne au XIXe siècle. Presses universitaires de Rennes 2015, ISBN 978-27535-2956-4 , p. 167
3. ↑ GARE de CLERMONT - FERRAND (SNCF) , diary. Private webpage