Lunéville – Saint-Dié railway line

Lunéville – Saint-Dié
Former Saint Michel-sur-Meurthe train station, around 1900
Route number (SNCF) :	068 000; 23 (1962)
Route length:	49.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	7  ‰
Legend Paris – Strasbourg railway line from Paris-Est 385.2 Luneville 230 m Railway line Lunéville – Blâmont – Badonviller to Herbéviller Railway line Paris – Strasbourg to Strasbourg 387.8 Moncel-lès-Lunéville 237 m 389.3 RN 333 395.8 Saint-Clément-Laronxe 251 m 398.1 Chenevières 256 m 400.6 Ménil-Flin 259 m 403.7 Azerailles 267 m Baccarat – Badonviller railway from Badonviller 409.5 Baccarat 276 m RN 59 414.0 Bertrichamps 278 m 415.7 Meurthe (66 m) 416.4 Thiaville 284 m ~ 417.6 Meurthe-et-Moselle / Vosges 418.7 Raon-l'Étape 292 m Railway line Raon-l'Étape – Raon-sur-Plaine to Raon-l'Étape 419.4 Meurthe (60 m) RN 59 422.3 Rabodeau (29 m) Étival – Senones railway from Senones 424.1 Etival Clairefontaine 302 m 425.4 Meurthe (59 m) 428.8 Saint-Michel-sur-Meurthe 315 m 434.4 RN 59 435.7 Saint-Dié-des-Vosges 343 m Arches – Saint-Dié railway to / from Épinal Railway line Strasbourg – Saint-Dié to Strasbourg

The Lunéville – Saint-Dié line is an almost 50 km long, electrified branch line in France , which was commissioned in 1864, is now in the inventory of the SNCF Réseau and is operated by TER Lorraine as route 11. The mileage continues from Paris-Est.

In contrast to many other routes in the region, it was of less strategic importance and was therefore never extended to two tracks . With the arrival of the TGV Est in Grand Est , it was electrified so that a pair of TGV trains could be run to Saint-Dié every day .

history

Saint-Michel-sur-Meurthe train station, 2015

As early as the 1850s, there was an initiative by municipalities in this region to call for a connection to the national railway network. They were patronized by the Prefect of Bas-Rhin , Jean-Baptiste Migneret (1809-1894). Despite several industrial consortia, all of which did not achieve this goal, it was the state that implemented the construction of the route with an imperial decree in 1860. The construction costs were estimated at 9.9 million French francs and subsidized with 5 million. The difference was to be generated through concessions at 0.7 million francs annually. Construction began immediately afterwards. In the course of 1864 the line was put into operation in two stages, on May 17th from Lunéville to Raon-l'Étape , and on November 15th all the way to Saint-Dié.

In 1863, the Chemin de fer de l'Est (CE) , founded ten years earlier, was granted the concession for this route by the state. It operates the main Paris – Strasbourg line in Lunéville and from 1881 will also run the Arches – Saint-Dié railway line to the south , so it fitted very well into the company's portfolio. During the Franco-Prussian War , the 66 m longest bridge, the one over the Meurthe , was destroyed by the withdrawing French Army on October 4, 1870, and 10 km of track removed, but both faults were removed from the German side by November 1871.

With the establishment of the SNCF , the line became the property and responsibility of the state railway, which continues to operate it. In the winter of 1995/96 the line was electrified with 25 kV 50 Hz  ~ , and in 2003 the automatic train control BAPR and the new signaling were installed, so that it is state-of-the-art today.

description

topography

A minimal, continuous gradient is covered over a length of almost 50 km in a north-west-south-east direction. The difference in altitude between the start and destination stations is 113 m, which corresponds to an average gradient of 4.4 ‰ . Apart from crossing the young Meurthe three times and another noteworthy stream, there were no obstacles to overcome during the construction of the route. Over its entire length it runs parallel to the Meurthe, which gives the northern department its name, and to the RN 59 , but changes its sides several times in its course.

network

In addition to the connections already mentioned at the start and destination stations, there were four other sidings:

• The CE built and operated the 14 km long Baccarat – Badonviller railway since 1881
• The Chemin de fer du Rabodeau built and operated from 1885 the 9 km long railway line Étival – Senones to Senones , which lasted 97 years
• The company Chemin de fer de la Vallée de Celles built and operated the Raon-l'Étape – Raon-sur-Plaine railway from 1902 (1902–1950)
• Two meter-gauge routes began at the station forecourt in Lunéville:

• The Lunéville – Einville line to Einville-au-Jard (1902–1943)
• The Lunéville – Blâmont – Badonviller line to Herbéviller (1911–1943)

Web links

Commons : Lunéville – Saint-Dié railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SNCF: Region de l'est. Carnet de Profils et Schémas , 1962, sheet 78
2. ↑ Réseau TER Metrolor , Route Overview
3. ↑ Décret impérial qui Declare d'utilité publique l'établissement the lignes de blackjack de Mayenne à Laval, d'Epinal Remiremont à et de Lunéville in Saint-Die , No. 8232, August 31, 1860. In: Bulletin des lois de l'Empire Français, Paris, Imprimerie impériale Series XI, Volume 16, No. 852, 1860, pp. 827-828
4. ^ François and Maguy Palau: Le rail en France: Le second Empire , Palau, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-950-9421-3-X , page 32.
5. ↑ Reports et délibérations. Conseil général du Département de la Meurthe et Moselle. Central administration in Meurthe-et-Moselle. Imprimerie Départementale, Nancy 1871, p. 766