Haguenau – Falck-Hargarten railway line

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Haguenau-Falck-Hargarten
Sarreguemines train station
Sarreguemines train station
Route number (SNCF) : 159,000
Course book route (SNCF) : 157
198
Course book range : 17 (SNCF)
DR until 1945:
267e (Falck-Hargarten – Sarreguemines)
284e (Sarreguemines – Haguenau)
Route length: 125.7 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 25 kV 50 Hz (Béning-Falck-Hargarten)  ~
Maximum slope : 15  ‰
Minimum radius : 300 m
Top speed: 100 km / h
Dual track : Falck-Hargarten-
Sarreguemines-Falck-Hargarten
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Vendenheim
   
 from Rastatt
Station, station
 0.0 Haguenau (Hagenau) 146 m
   
 to Wissembourg
Station, station
 3.8 Schweighouse-sur-Moder (Schweighausen) 150 m
   
 to Steinbourg
   
 by Seltz
Station, station
 10.8 Mertzwiller (Merzweiler) 165 m
   
 12.4 Rental home 165 m
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
 13.9 Northern Zinsel
Stop, stop
 15.2 Gundershoffen (Gundershofen) 172 m
   
 16.8 Reichshoffen -Usines 175 m
Stop, stop
 18.3 Reichshoffen Ville (Reichshofen-City) 188 m
   
 21.4 Niederbronn-les-Bains (Bad Niederbronn) 200 m
   
 26.3 Lorraine - Alsace border
   
 28.4 Philippsbourg (Philippsburg) 255 m
   
 34.2 Spell stone 241 m
   
 36.0 Éguelshardt (Egelshardt) 270 m
   
 41.1 Bitche-Camp (Bitsch-Lager)
   
 Bitsch warehouse connection
   
 44.9 Bitche (bitsch) 290 m
   
 45.1 N 62
   
 53.1 Lviv 390 m
   
 57.6 Enchenberg 370 m
   
 61.9 Petit-Réderching (Kleinredingen) 345 m
   
 64.8 Rohrbach-lès-Bitche (Rohrbach b.Bitsch) 360 m
   
 72.4 Wœlfling-lès-Sarreguemines (Wölflingen) 342 m
   
 N 62
   
 78.9 from Homburg (Saar) 232 m
   
 81.6 Sarreguemines -Est ( Sarreguemines East) 220 m
   
 82.4 different track connections
   
 83.4 Viaduc de Steinbach ( Saar ) (118 m) 215 m
   
 83.5 D 919, formerly N 61
   
 from Mommenheim
   
 from / to Berthelming
Station, station
 84.0 Sarreguemines (Saargemünd) 220 m
   
 to Saarbrücken
tunnel
 84.5 Tunnel de Sarreguemines (254 m)
   
 85.7 Welferding (Wölferdingen) 215 m
Road bridge
 87.1 N 61
   
 89.1 Ippling (Iplingen) 216 m
Stop, stop
 91.1 Hundling (Hundlingen) 225 m
   
 93.4 Thief (thieves) 243 m
   
 from Puttelange-aux-Lacs (Püttlingen)
Stop, stop
 96.8 Farschviller (Farschweiler) 261 m
Stop, stop
 101.6 Farébersviller (parish hamlet) 257 m
   
 105.3 from Saarbrücken
Station, station
 106.5 Béning (Beningen) 213 m
   
 to Metz
Road bridge
 A 320
Road bridge
 N 3
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 108.2 Freyming-Merlebach
(Merlenbach allowances)
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 Rossel
   
 111.1 Sainte-Fontaine (Heiligenbronn) 216 m
   
 113.1 L'Hôpital (Spittel) 234 m
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 114.6 ZA de Bantzenheim
(Spittel Nordschacht)
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 117.0 Carling (Karlingen) 244 m
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
 120.7 Bist (41 m)
   
 121.3 Creutzwald (Kreuzwald)
   
 from Völklingen
   
 125.7 Falck-Hargarten
Route - straight ahead
 to Thionville

The Haguenau – Falck-Hargarten railway is a standard-gauge, double-track railway line in Lorraine and Alsace , which also had strategic tasks until the Second World War . It runs along the German-French border partially across the Pays de Bitche (German: Bitscher Land). The Saargemünd - Niederbronn-les-Bains section has been closed and the Bitsch-Lager- Niederbronn section will be dismantled. The line is electrified between Béning and Falck-Hargarten .

history

Bitsch train station between the world wars (in the background the fortress, in the picture in the front the former national road N 62)

The section between Haguenau and Niederbronn was opened on December 19, 1864, extended on December 16, 1865 from Saargemünd (Sarreguemines) to Beningen (Béning) and on May 1, 1866 from Beningen to Karlingen (Carling). The extension from Niederbronn via Bitsch (Bitche) to Saargemünd went into operation on December 8, 1869, and the section from Karlingen via Falck-Hargarten to Diedenhofen (Thionville) was opened on May 1, 1882 . The line was already in operation before the Saarbrücken – Sarreguemines railway was built, but was destroyed again south of Bliesbrücken on July 24, 1870 with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War by a division of the 7th Uhlans under Lieutenant Karl von Voigt . The route east of Bitsch was also made unusable during the course of the war.

Until the end of the war, the route between Beningen (Béning) and Diedenhofen (Thionville) was continuously used by trains. From the beginning, the route was designed primarily for military purposes , in peacetime the importance for freight traffic compared to passenger traffic was 3: 1. Especially in the valley of the Schwarzbach in Alsace, many industrial companies could be served by rail.

Route

Between Haguenau and Sarreguemines, the railway line follows the N 62 and the D 1062, as it is called for administrative reasons in Alsace. It runs in a south-southeast-north-northwest direction along the German-French border and connects important railways with each other:

Train stations

Saargemünd was and is the central transfer station for the lines to Saarbrücken ( Saarbahn ) and the Mommenheim – Sarreguemines railway line , to Saarburg via Saarunion (TER line 18) and to Strasbourg (TER line 20).

Haguenau's first train station was built in 1855 on the Vendenheim – Wissembourg railway line , but was replaced by another structure in 1892 and destroyed in combat in 1944. The current building dates from 1950.

  • Hagenau station, 1987

  • Bitsch station, 1993

  • Kleinrederchingen station, currently without passenger traffic

Infrastructure

The route is equipped with various signaling systems. The Bloc Automatique is used from Falck-Hargarten to Saargemünd. The Manuel Bloc is used between Saargemünd and Bitsch, from Niederbronn-les-Bains the line is equipped with the automatique lumineux (BAL) block to Haguenau. In the summer of 1956, the overhead line between Béning and Falck-Hargarten went into operation. The maximum gradient from Hagenau to Saargemünd is 15 ‰, otherwise up to 10 ‰. In addition, many curves have radii of at least 300 m. The Haguenau – Schweighouse-sur-Moder section used to have two tracks.

Current condition

The regional trains between Béning and Bitsch are run as line 17 at TER Lorraine . The trains ran continuously to Bitsch until December 2011. Since then, the Saargemünd – Bitsch section has been served by replacement buses due to insufficient profitability and damage to the superstructure. There are currently six buses running to Bitsch Monday to Friday during rush hour from / to Saargemünd , there you have to change to the train / bus from / to Béning. A few trains run continuously to Metz – Ville . On Saturdays only three passenger trains run between Sarreguemines and Béning, the remaining journeys are made by buses. Passenger traffic on the Béning – Falck-Hargarten section is no longer offered today. On the Bitsch – Niederbronn section, the border between the two former regions of Lorraine and Alsace was crossed. Between Niederbronn and Haguenau , as line 5 under the sponsorship of TER Alsace , up to seven pairs of trains run daily, some of which are tied through to Strasbourg . With bus support, regular service is ensured, most of which continue to Bitsch. Rail traffic has only been completely idle since 1996 on the route between Bitsch and Niederbronn. What should happen to the railway line after the dismantling is not yet planned.

On part of the route there is tourist traffic with bicycle trolleys .

Vehicle use

For the trains of TER Lorraine the series are X 4750 and X 76500 used, both of which are diesel multiple units . The TER Alsace also uses the X 76500 series, as well as the X 73500 multiple units and locomotives from the BB 67400 series with RRR wagons.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b (fr) Strasbourg - Wissembourg (L33) / Haguenau - Niederbronn les Bains (L35) (PDF; 13 kB)
  2. ↑ Béning-les-Saint-Avold - Sarreguemines Ligne N ° 34
  3. ↑ Béning-les-Saint-Avold - Carling Ligne N ° 34
  4. ↑ Niederbronn-les Bains - Sarreguemines Ligne N ° 28
  5. ^ Carling - Hargarten-Falck Ligne N ° 34
  6. ↑ routes 12a to 14e on alsassbahn.free.fr
  7. ↑ http://www.memotransfront.uni-saarland.de/saarbruecken_sarreguemines.shtml
  8. ^ Herrman Irle, from: Amounts for regional and folklore of Alsace-Lorraine, Book XX, "The Fortress Bitsch", 3rd edition, 1902, p. 23 and p. 36
  9. ^ Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railway System, 1912
  10. ↑ RFF - map of train spacing systems
  11. ↑ Revue Chemins de fer de l'AFAC, No. 393, 1988, page 263
  12. ↑ Reinhard Douté: Les 400 profils de lignes voyageurs du réseau ferré français , La Vie du Rail, August 2011, ISBN 978-2-918758-34-1 , Volume 1, pages 73-74
  13. ^ H. Lartilleux: Géographie des chemins de fer français , Volume 1, Éditions Chaix, 1955
  14. ↑ Route table 17 TER Lorraine (PDF; 133 kB)
  15. ↑ Route table 5 TER Alsace (PDF; 109 kB)
  16. ↑ Vous n'aurez pas l'Alsace et la Lorraine ( Memento of July 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ^ LOK Report - German-French cooperation with T2SB (Train Touristique Sarreguemines - Bitche). Retrieved on July 15, 2020 (German).

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