Laon – Liart railway line

Laon-Liart
Laon Railway Station, 2011
Route number (SNCF) :	228 000
Course book route (SNCF) :	114 ( north ), 126 ( SNCF )
Route length:	59.9 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	9  ‰
Dual track :	Yes
Legend La Plaine – Hirson railway from Paris-Nord 138.9 Junction St-Marcel ( Amiens – Laon v. Amiens railway ) 139.1 Laon – Cateau railway from Le Cateau 140.0 Laon 84 m Reims – Laon railway line to Reims 140.5 Vaux junction ( La Plaine – Hirson to Hirson line) 144.2 Athies-sous-Laon 72 m ~ 144.6 Conn. La Râperie sugar factory 145.3 A 26 148.6 Samoussy 85 m 151.4 Gizy 77 m 153.0 Liesse-Gizy 74 m 156.2 Souche (8 m) 156.3 Marais-de-Chivres 72 m 157.7 Chivres-en-Laonnois 78 m 162.2 Bucy-les-Pierrepont 106 m 165.7 Clermont-les-Fermes 129 m 172.1 Chaourse 124 m Marle – Montcornet railway line 173.1 Hurtaut (29 m) according to Renneville CFDA 173.6 Montcornet 113 m 174.2 Dedication begins 177.7 Magny 131 m 179.9 Chéry-lès-Rozoy 137 m 182.1 Rozoy-sur-Serre 138 m 185.9 Rouvroy-sur-Serre 157 m 187.9 Résigny 161 m ~ 190 Aisne / Ardennes department 193.2 Le Fréty-Saint-Gorgon 198 m 196.2 La Férée 222 m 197.2 Tunnel de la Férée (529 m) 199.2 End of deedication ; former border north / east 199.4 26.9 Junction Liart ( Hirson – Amagne-Lucquy v. Hirson line) 27.5 Liart 227 m 27.6 Railway line Liart – Tournes to Tournes 28.05 Dedication begins Railway line Hirson – Amagne-Lucquy to Amagne-Lucquy

The Laon – Liart railway line is a formerly double-track , non-electrified railway line in the northern and eastern French departments of Marne and Aisne , which is partially disengaged and no longer passable. Bulk handling with the agricultural cooperative Vivescia requires the operation of the remaining, approx. 34 km long route between Laon and Montcornet .

history

Montcornet, June 2015

The concessionaire for this line was the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord (Northern Railway), which in 1881 submitted its application to build and operate the line. On June 5, 1883, the contract between the company and the Ministry of Transport was signed. The route was of public interest from the start. Thus, public transport took place. It was inaugurated on November 3, 1888 between Laon and Rozoy-sur-Serre, only four and a half years later, on July 10, 1888, the second section went into operation.

Just like the opening, part of the route was also closed in two steps. On February 24, 1975 the eastern part between Rozoy-sur-Serre and Liart went out of service, on April 10, 1996 the upstream part between Montcornet and Rozoy, so that about 26 of the 60 km can no longer be driven.

Alignment

The route runs relatively straight in a north-easterly direction. At the same time, the former national road 377 and RN 378 , today D 977 and D 978, respectively, which also connect the two cities. If the route initially leads over a little sloping and sparsely populated area, it is led from Montcornet along the Serre , a tributary of the Oise, into a valley which it has to follow upstream. In the headwaters of the Serre, it overcomes the watershed to the Thon at almost 240 m in the tunnel de la Férée .

In Athies-sous-Laon an approx. 3.5 km long connecting line to the La Râperie sugar factory branched off on the D 51 and there was a brick factory in Liesse . The line touched the track network of the narrow-gauge railway, with which the clay was transported from the Souche lowlands of La Marais , in Montcornet there was a connection to the privately operated Marle – Montcornet (MM) line from 1907 to 1959 , which had become the property of the Nordbahn in 1923 .

In addition, the meter- gauge railway of the Chemins de fer départementaux des Ardennes (CFDA), which operated an extensive branch line network until the early 1960s, ended in Montcornet . Since May 1909, this route led south towards Asfeld and Reims . In Liart there was a transition to the 55 km long Wiège-Faty-Liart railway line , which had been reclassified to standard gauge in the first half of the 1920s and also belonged to the CFDA network. It existed from 1912 to 1961.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SNCF North Region. Carnet de Profils et Schémas. 1951, sheet 69
2. ↑ Loi qui Declare d'utilité publique l'établissement de la première section du chemin de fer de Laon à Mézières, Laon Comprise entre et la ligne d'Hirson à Amagne. Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, réglements, et avis du Conseil d'Etat, Paris 1881, page 62
3. ↑ ^{a b} José Banaudo: Ligne de Laon à Liart. Volume 4: L'État - Le Nord - Les Ceintures. Editions du Cabri, 1982, ISBN 2-903310-24-6 . On: Ligne oubliée
4. ^ Evocation de la ligne Marles Montcornet dans le nord. On: Cercle du Zéro . May 2, 2015
5. ^ List of chemins de fer secondaires. Ardennes. FACS, Patrimoine Ferroviaire
6. ^ List of chemins de fer secondaires. Aisne. FACS, Patrimoine Ferroviaire

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