Lunéville – Blâmont – Badonviller railway line
| Lunéville – Blâmont – Badonviller | |
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 Lunéville local train station
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 Timetable from the 1920/1930 years
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| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
The Lunéville – Blâmont – Badonviller (LBB) line was a single-track, narrow-gauge railway in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in Lorraine in eastern France . It was in operation from 1911 to 1942 and was then dismantled.
course
The LBB was made up of three branches that met at the Herbéviller train station . The western to Lunéville and the eastern to Blâmont followed the course of the river Vezouze , the southern to Badonviller that of the Blette . The total length of the route was 44 kilometers, of which 14 on the south branch, the remaining 30 on the route between Lunéville and Blâmont
In Lunéville the line began in front of the Est train station , today the only train station in the city, where there was a direct siding to the also meter-gauge Lunéville – Einville railway . At the station itself, trains operated by the Eastern Railway to Paris and Strasbourg as well as to Saint Dié . The LBB led to the east, to the local train station, which is still within the city limits, the seat of the administration and the depot as well as a transfer point for freight to and from the main line. The next step was to a triangle of tracks , over which the Lunéville-Jolivet station on the line to Einville could be reached to the northwest, bypassing the city center . The LBB continued east via Chanteheux and Croismare to Marainviller , where it was led with a bridge over the Paris – Strasbourg line. This was followed Thiébauménil , Manonviller , Bénaménil , Domjevin , Fréménil , Ogéviller and Herbéviller. Further east it went via Domèvre and Verdenal to Blâmont. There was no connection here to the Igney-Avricourt-Cirey railway, as its station was at the opposite end of the city and on the other side of the Vezouze.
The branch to Badonviller left Herbéviller station in the direction of Lunéville, then turned southeast to reach its destination via Mignéville , Montigny , Sainte-Pôle and Saint-Maurice . The standard gauge railway line from Baccarat ended at the station there .
history
On February 29, 1908, the Compagnie des chemins de fer départementaux de l'Aube , which had completed the railway line from Lunéville to Einville in the region as early as 1902, received approval to build and operate a meter-gauge local railway . Traffic began on June 29, 1911, and the official inauguration ceremony took place a few weeks later, on August 3, in the presence of the Minister for Public Works, Jean Augagneur, and the Colonial Minister, Albert Lebrun . The steam locomotives were of the type 130 T made by Corpet-Louvet , the wagons were from Lorraine-Dietrich . De Dion-Bouton JM and OM rail buses were later used for passenger transport .
From 1913 onwards there were considerations to extend the south branch from Badonviller in a north-easterly direction via Bréménil and Val-et-Châtillon to Cirey and also to transport timber from the forest areas on the upper reaches of the Vezouze via a connecting railway . Although the plans were well advanced in 1914, they were not implemented, nor was an expansion planned in 1920 beyond Blâmont to Héming and the Rhine-Marne Canal .
In the course of the First World War , the line came early in the immediate front area . Between August 2, 1914 and February 1, 1919 it was reserved for the French military; no civilian transports took place. The easternmost section, between Domèvre and Blâmon, lay in the area occupied by the German army for a long time after the battle in Lorraine and could therefore not be used. In the course of the fighting, the tracks, two bridges and other structures in this section were destroyed, the damage was repaired after the troops withdrew. During the war, a short connecting curve was built west of Herbéviller, which made it possible to run trains directly from the west to the south branch without having to change the direction of travel . In 1922 their route was legally declared part of the route.
On August 31, 1942, the passenger traffic on the LBB was stopped, two weeks later, on September 14th, also the freight traffic. The final shutdown took place by a decree of October 4, 1943. The line is now completely dismantled, some of the stations, including the local train station in Lunéville have been preserved.
literature
- Maurice Bourgeois: Le Chemin de fer de Lunéville à Blâmont et Badonviller. In: Magazine des Tramways à Vapeur et des Secondaires , issue 27, 1983.
- Marc Gabriel: L'épopée du LBB . Nancy 2011, ISBN 978-2-9537068-1-9
Web links
- Information on the history of LBB , the planned extension in 1914 and the war damage on a website on the history of Blamont and the surrounding area (French)
- Combination of several French general staff maps from the mid-1920s as part of the large sheet 144a of the map of the German Empire at Landkartenarchiv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1911-2011: Les 100 ans du tacot (Vu depuis la gare de Fréménil). Information about the railway on the Fréménil website , accessed on October 12, 2019. (French)