Lérouville – Pont-Maugis railway line

Lérouville – Pont-Maugis
Route number (SNCF) :	088 000
Course book route (SNCF) :	19 of the Région Est
Route length:	143.3 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	10.5  ‰
Top speed:	40 km / h
Dual track :	1885 to 1959
Legend Paris – Strasbourg railway from Strasbourg 288.7 0.0 Lérouville 231 m Railway line Paris – Strasbourg to Paris 3.81 Sampigny 228 m 6.89 Factory connection 9.3 Kœur 221 m 16.84 Saint-Mihiel 219 m 22.07 Dompcevrin 216 m 25.54 Bannoncourt 219 m 26.10 LGV Est européenne 29.27 Woimbey 213 m 33.09 Tilly-sur-Meuse 212 m 35.05 Villers-sur-Meuse 209 m Les Monthairons 41.239 Ancemont / Dieue-sur-Meuse 204 m Factory connection 46,435 Dugny-sur-Meuse 217 m Saint-Hilaire-au-Temple – Hagondange railway from Saint-Hilaire-au-Temple 54,346 Verdun 200 m Railway Saint-Hilaire-au-Temple – Hagondange to Hagondange 60.8 Charny-sur-Meuse 199 m Marre 67.20 Chattancourt 190 m 72.69 Regnéville-sur-Meuse 197 m 77.62 Consenvoye 185 m 84.57 Sivry-sur-Meuse 180 m Vilosnes Haraumont 88.42 Brieulles-sur-Meuse 178 m 92.1 Marcq-Saint-Juvin – Baroncourt v. Marcq-St-Juvin Dun-Doulcon depot with water point 94.07 Dun-sur-Meuse 175 m ~ 94.1 D 998 (formerly RN 398 ) ~ 94.1 Marcq-Saint-Juvin – Baroncourt v. / N. Baroncourt railway line 98.16 Sassey-sur-Meuse 174 m 100.72 Saulmory-et-Villefranche 175 m 107.80 Stenay 168 m 113.61 In or 167 m 117.51 Pouilly-sur-Meuse 164 m Ardennes department / Meuse department 121.28 Létanne 162 m Villemontry 131.23 Mouzon 158 m 134.67 Autrecourt-Villers 159 m 140.19 Remilly-Aillicourt 157 m 142,859 162,350 Mohon – Thionville railway from Thionville 161.978 Pont-Maugis 157 m Railway Mohon – Thionville to Mohon

The Lérouville – Pont-Maugis line is a 143 km long main line in Lorraine , which only serves freight traffic. It was designated with the course book route number 19 taken over from the Chemin de Fer de l'Est .

The route runs along its entire length on the western side of the river Meuse ( Meuse in French ), which flows northwards from the Langres plateau to the Ardennes . Due to this route there are almost no inclines and no engineering structures such as tunnels or large bridges, which helped the route's task of providing war material on the Franco-German front. At the same time, the route should also provide a connection to the Belgian capital. Currently, only the northern section from Stenay and Verdun , where the line crosses the Saint-Hilaire-au-Temple-Hagondange railway line , is about five kilometers north (to Charny-sur-Meuse ) and five kilometers south ( to Dugny ) used as factory connections.

history

Verdun with an X 73500 series SNCF multiple unit

in front the now single-track line, behind the railway line to Thionville immediately before the confluence at Pont-Maugis

The concession to build the line was granted on August 21, 1869, the opening of the first section Pont-Maugis- Verdun took place on November 28, 1873, according to other sources on November 28, 1874. The entire line was completed and commissioned in summer 1876. During the First and Second World War, the line was primarily of military importance, with the Maginot Line and a number of barracks located along the northern half , which could be supplied with material and personnel by rail.

It was designed to be two-pronged when it was planned , but this was not implemented until 1885. The line also had commercial success because there were several raw material plants along the line : coal from the Lièger Basin , which was transported to Lorraine , lime from the limestone quarries on the southern half of the route, which was used in the plants in Verdun and Valenciennes , and wood for the paper mill in Stenay and also wine.

Starting in 1936, four sets of ZZCEy type rail buses were used on the route for the first time ; they were stationed at the Mohon depot and were destroyed there by the war in 1944. After 1945, De Dietrich XD 42100 rail buses were used.

Passenger traffic was discontinued on May 31, 1959. After this date, NATO medical trains and diesel locomotive- hauled freight trains were occasionally seen on the route .

Since the line was classified as a strategic railway until January 1, 1998 , it is still completely available. A request to the French Senate of July 5, 2007 regarding a possible reopening was followed by confirmation that the case would be examined financially.

Today's train traffic

The Pont-Maugis-Stenay section is operated in limited train service ( VUTR ) with a maximum speed of 40 km / h and a maximum axle load of 22.5 t. From 1990 to 2000, the Chemin de fer touristique du sud des Ardennes between Pont Maugis and Stenay carried out trips with a railcar on the summer weekends. As far as Mouzon, where, among other things, a branch of ArcelorMittal is served, there is still daily freight train traffic, after Stenay only occasionally.

Web links

Commons : Pont-Maugis – Lérouville railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Les numéros attribués aux lignes de fer de l'ancien chemin de réseau Est. In: Trains En Voyage. Retrieved on August 27, 2012 (French, former route numbers in the "East" area). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Pascal Dumont, Olivier Geerinck: Sur les rails d'Ardennes et de Gaume . Editions de Borée, 2004, ISBN 2-84494-269-5 ( online ).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Sébastien Wilmet: Ligne de Lérouville à Pont-Maugis Sedan LIGNE .19. (No longer available online.) In: Chemin de Fer Réel. May 26, 1998, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 28, 2012 (French).  ( 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.    
4. ^ Ligne de Sedan à Lérouville. In: Rue du Petit Train. Retrieved August 28, 2012 (French). 
5. ^ Jean-Marc Dupuy: Gares et Tortillards de Lorraine . l'apart, 2009, ISBN 2-35131-066-7 , p. 19 ( online ).
6. ↑ AutoRail SCFE Est. (No longer available online.) In: RMF. August 19, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 28, 2012 (French).  ( 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.    
7. ↑ Réouverture au trafic voyageurs de la ligne Verdun-Lérouville. Sénat, accessed on August 28, 2012 (French, file of the French Ministry of Transport of May 8, 2008). 
8. ↑ Desserte de Mouzon (08) by CFL cargo, Tue 25/03/2012. (No longer available online.) In: Trains En Voyage. March 25, 2012, archived from the original on December 13, 2013 ; Retrieved August 28, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.