Longuyon – Pagny-sur-Moselle railway line

Longuyon – Pagny-sur-Moselle
Baroncourt train station
Route number (SNCF) :	95,000
Route length:	73.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Dual track :	Yes
Legend Mohon – Thionville railway from Mohon 227.8 Longuyon – Mont-Saint-Martin to Mont-Saint-Martin railway line 228.0 0.0 Longuyon 218 m 0.8 Railway Mohon – Thionville to Thionville 2.2 Meurthe-et-Moselle / Meuse 6.3 Arrancy 249 m 16.2 Spincourt 236 m 16.7 Othain (16 m) Marcq-Saint-Juvin – Baroncourt railway line v / n. Marcq-Saint-Juvin 22.3 Baroncourt 241 m 23.2 Baroncourt – Audun-le-Roman railway to Audun-le-Roman 29 Gondrecourt-Aix 253 m 34.9 Fiquelmont 231 m 37.9 A4 40.8 Saint-Hilaire-au-Temple – Hagondange railway from St-Hilaire-au-T. 40.9 Orne (62 m) 41.3 Conflans-Jarny 191 m Railway Saint-Hilaire-au-Temple – Hagondange to Hagondange Railway line Conflans-Jarny-Metz to Metz 45.2 Droitaumont 209 m 50.9 Mars-la-Tour 239 m 56.3 Chambley 258 m Junction Aérodrome de Chambley (LFJY) 62.4 Lérouville – Metz railway from Lérouville 64.7 Rupt de Mad (83 m) 66.0 Onville 196 m 70.1 Arnaville 183 m Railway line Frouard – Novéant to Novéant and railway line Lérouville – Metz to Metz 73.3 Pagny-sur-Moselle 182 m Railway line Frouard – Novéant to Frouard

The Longuyon – Pagny-sur-Moselle railway is a 74 km long standard-gauge line in the Lorraine region in eastern France . It represents a connection between the Moselle route Frouard – Pagny – Novéant and the Mohon – Thionville railway to the north . It was commissioned by the Chemin de fer de l'Est in 1877 and is now part of the European freight transport corridor Antwerp – Basel / Lyon.

The line was built from northern Longuyon. In Conflans-Jarny it crosses another important line, the line coming from the east from Metz and the 176 km long railway line Saint-Hilaire-au-Temple-Hagondange . This railway line has a flat terrain profile and accordingly requires few artificial structures.

history

After the Franco-German War , this region was directly on the new German-French border. Traffic routes via Metz were cut off for France. The transport of Belgian coal to the industrial plants at Pont-à-Mousson made a traffic connection in the direction of the new capital Nancy and the traffic route on the Moselle attractive. A direct gap to the existing connection in the south was required. Two years after the end of the war, the construction of the line was approved on July 17, 1873. On August 27, 1877, the northern section to Conflans-Jarny, and on December 10 of the same year, the southern section was put into operation. The line was designed for double track from the start , but it was not implemented until 1902.

In this Upper Moselle region, the new route made coal sales from the Saar , which previously had the largest share of the coal market there, unprofitable. As a result, further connecting lines were built in the north to connect the ore mines there near Aumetz and the Forges de Sainte-Claire-lès-Villerupt ironworks . Other routes in the direction of Paris and, for example, to Gondrecourt-le-Château were added, so that at the turn of the century a very dense network was created, which was primarily available for freight traffic, but increasingly also for tourism.

Today there is no more passenger traffic on the route.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ralf Banken: The Industrialization of the Saar Region 1815-1914, Volume 2 . Franz Steiner Verlag 2000, ISBN 978-3515078283
2. ↑ Bulletin des lois de la République Française , Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, série XII, vol. 6, no 139, 1873, pages 813-818
3. ↑ Annales des ponts et chaussées: Mémoires et documents relatif à l'art des constructions et au service de l'ingénieur . 1st part. Partié technique, Partie 1, 1879, page 149
4. ^ Jean-Marc Dupuy: Gares et tortillards de Lorraine . Editions Cheminements 2009, ISBN 978-2360370016 , page 20