Le Mans – Angers railway line

Le Mans-Angers
TGV runs through Morannes northwards
Route number (SNCF) :	450000
Course book route (SNCF) :	380
Route length:	95 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	Le Mans node: 1500 V  =
Power system :	Remaining distance: 25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	6  ‰
Minimum radius :	1000 m
Top speed:	220 km / h
Dual track :	continuous
Legend (Kilometers from old train station Paris M. ) Paris – Brest railway line , connection with LGV Atlantique 211.0 Le Mans 211.4 Sarthe To Brest and the Le Mans – Mézidon railway line to the marshalling yard 215.0 Alternation 1.5 kV direct current / 25 kV alternating current 219.2 Saint-Georges - Etival 223.1 Voivres 229.3 Sarthe 229.4 La Suze L'Aubinière – La Suze railway line 239.0 Sarthe 239.3 Noyen 240.9 Autoroute A11 247.2 Avoise 248.8 Vègre 253.2 Juigné-sur-Sarthe 256.1 To the LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire 258.0 Aubigné-Racan – Sablé railway line 258.3 Erve 259.0 Sablé Sablé – Montoir-de-Bretagne railway line 262.0 Sarthe 264.9 Pincé 267.4 Pincé - Précigné 272.6 Viaduc des Barbitons 273.2 Morannes 279.4 Le Porage to Étriché 283.2 Étriché 287.7 Tiercé 292.7 Le Vieux-Briollay 293.0 Loir 296.2 Saint-Sylvain 301.4 Écouflant 302.0 to Angers-Saint-Serge 302.4 Autoroute A11 Loudun – Angers railway line 305.8 Angers -Maître-École from Tours 306,259 341,524 from here kilometer via Tours 342.4 343 Angers-Saint-Laud to Nantes-Saint-Nazaire

The Le Mans – Angers railway line is a 95 km long French railway line. It is a double-track, electrified main line that leads from Le Mans via Sablé-sur-Sarthe to Angers ; it is part of the Paris - Nantes route . It is located entirely in the region Pays de la Loire .

It was opened in 1863 by the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest .

It is listed under the number 450 000 at the infrastructure operator SNCF Réseau .

history

Origins

At the beginning of 1855, several railway companies were merged to form the Chemins de fer de l'Ouest (Ouest) . The approval for this was granted by decree on April 7th, together with the approval and the requirement to build several routes. The eighth line in the list was a branch from Le Mans to Angers. But since the Chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO) had already received a concession for (Paris–) Tours – Angers – Nantes with an eleven-year anti-competition clause two years earlier , the condition was also given that this connection was not put into operation until 1864.

The Ouest then entered into negotiations to have this restriction lifted. Agreement was reached on this in 1857.

Le Mans – Sablé

Approval for the route from Le Mans to Sablé was granted on March 31, 1858. In the spring of 1860, the company began with the 2.2 million francs construction work. They included extensive cuts at Le Mans (134,000 m ³ ), at Noyen (300,000 m ³ ) and before Sablé (360,000 m ³ ); some bridges over rivers and valleys, especially over the Sarthe (multiple), its side canal and the Vègre and its valley; as well as train stations in Voivres , La Suze , Noyen , Avoise , Juigné and the provisional terminus in Sablé.

The structures were completed in 1861, the first 48 km from Le Mans to Sablé opened on March 23, 1863.

Sablé – Angers

Only a few kilometers from Sablé to Angers had already been approved; the entire route was approved in 1861. The work was carried out beginning at the end of 1861 and all the way in 1862. The most important structures were the Sablé Viaduct and the one over the Loir , the rest of the route was rather easy to route. Railway stations were set up in Pincé - Précigné , Morannes , Étriché , Tiercé , Saint-Sylvain and Écouflant . Angers-Maître-École was set up as the terminus before it joins the PO line . This 47 km long section, and thus the entire line, was put into operation on December 7, 1863.

electrification

The line has been operated electrically since September 16, 1983. At the Le Mans junction, which was reached with direct current in the 1930s, up to km 215.028, it was equipped with 1500 V direct current, from there with 25 kV 50 Hz alternating current.

Route description

course

Train in Le Mans, around 1909

Local train in Sablé

This double-track route is laid out very advantageously, the gradients do not exceed 6 ‰ and the radii between 1000 and 2000 m allow high speeds.

The route begins at Le Mans station , which it leaves to the northwest. In a long left curve, it turns to the southwest and cuts off some loops of the Sarthe on a plateau . It crosses the Voivres train station and crosses the Sarthe just before the La Suze train station. The route now turns west and crosses the Sarthe again shortly before Noyen. Further west, it passes under the Autoroute A11 (“La Océane” , Paris – Nantes), passes the closed Avoise train station, crosses the Vègre with the Viaduc de la Gaudine and passes through the former train station of Juigné-sur-Sarthe. Behind it, the connection from the LGV Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (“Virgule de Sablé”) meets the line that now turns in a south-easterly direction and reaches the train station of Sablé-sur-Sarthe .

Railcar in Écouflant

A TGV runs through Angers-Maître-École

A TGV to Paris in Angers-Saint-Laud

After Sablé the route leads south and changes over a viaduct to the left side of the Sarthe in order to bypass the hills on the right bank of the river. The line runs through the closed Pincé - Précigné station, those of Morannes, Étriché, Tiercé and Vieux-Briollay, before crossing the Loir . The route gives way to a wetland slightly to the east, crosses the old station of Saint-Sylvain - Briollay before that of Écouflant . After crossing under the A 11 motorway again, it reaches Angers-Maître-École, which is now used for regional traffic. Behind it, it meets the Tours – Saint-Nazaire railway line , on which the Angers-Saint-Laud long-distance train station is reached.

Equipment and speeds

The line is equipped with the block automatique lumineux (BAL), the Contrôle de vitesse par balises (KVB) and GSM-R .

TGVs are allowed to travel south at the following speeds:

From (distance km)	To (distance km)	Top speed (km / h)
Le Mans	220.4	160
220.4	261.8	220
261.8	282.9	210
282.9	294.2	220
294.2	295.4	160
295.4	301.5	190
301.5	Angers	150

traffic

On this route are TGV Atlantique from Paris-Montparnasse to Nantes , to Le Croisic and to Les Sables-d'Olonne , as well as regional transport of the TER Pays de la Loire and freight transport.

literature

• François et Maguy Palau, “6.4 Le Mans-Sablé: 23 mars 1863”, “6.27 Sablé-Angers: 7 December 1863”, in: Le rail en France: le second Empire, tome 2 (1858-1863) , édition Palau, Paris, May 2001 ISBN 2-950-94212-1 , p. 205

Web links

Commons : Ligne du Mans à Angers-Maître-École  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bulletin des lois de l'Empire Français XI , 5, 292 (1855), pp. 818-828, Imprimerie Impériale, Paris - " Bulletin of the French Empire, Series XI, 5, 292 of 1855, pp. 818ff", accessed on April 1, 2017.
2. ↑ Décret impérial qui approuve la convention passée, les 2 février et 6 avril 1855, entre le ministre de l'Agriculture, du Commerce et des Travaux publics, et les Compagnies du chemin de fer de Paris à Saint-Germain, de Paris à Rouen , etc of April 7, 1855, Bulletin des lois de l'Empire Français XI, 6,313, (1855), pp. 57-58, Imprimerie Impériale, Paris , " Bulletin of the French Empire, Series XI, 6, 313 of 1855, P. 58f: Approval of the contracts of February 2 and April 6 between ... ", accessed on April 1, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Palau 2001, p. 185
4. ↑ ^{a b} Palau 2001, p. 218
5. ↑ Chemins de fer magazine (fr), éditée par l'AFAC, No. 393, December 1988, p. 265.
6. ↑ Document de référence du réseau ferré national, horaire de service 2014, annexe 6.6 - SNCF network reference for the 2014 timetable, appendix 6.6
7. ↑ Document de référence du réseau ferré national, horaire de service 2014, annexe 6.7 - SNCF network reference for the 2014 timetable, Appendix 6.7
8. ↑ Document de référence du réseau ferré national, horaire de service 2014, annexe 6.8 - SNCF network reference for the 2014 timetable, Appendix 6.8
9. ↑ Renseignements techniques SNCF / RFF, version de janvier 2013 - SNCF / RFF speed overview from January 2013