Luxembourg – Wasserbillig railway line

Luxembourg – Wasserbillig
Route number :	3 (CFL)
Course book section (DB) :	693
Course book range :	30 (CFL)
Route length:	37.4 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	15  ‰
Minimum radius :	350 m
Top speed:	Luxembourg – Oetrange: 120 km / h Oetrange – Wasserbillig: 100 km / h Wasserbillig – border: 80 km / h
Dual track :	Luxembourg – Sandweiler Oetrange – Wasserbillig
Legend Line from Namur , Line from Metz 0.00 Luxembourg Viaduct powder mill Town plot (junction) Route to Spa 2.90 Cent Hamm 6.55 Sandweiler - Contern Range from Berchem 11.97 Oetrange 15.40 Munsbach 20.28 Roodt / Syre Syr Syr 24.70 Betzdorf 27.68 Alarm clock Syr Syr 30.60 Manternach Manternach Tunnel (210 m) Syr Syr 34.95 Mertert Route from the Moselle port of Mertert 36.89 Water cheap former route to Ettelbrück 37.44 Sauer , Luxembourg / Germany border Western route to Trier

The Luxembourg – Wasserbillig railway line , sometimes also called the Moselle-Syretal route , is a 37.4-kilometer railway line in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg between the capital Luxembourg and the border with Germany near Wasserbillig . It is operated by the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL for short, German: National Society of Luxembourg Railways ).

history

Series 4000 of the CFL at the system change point in front of Wasserbillig

The line was opened on August 20, 1861 by the Wilhelm-Luxemburg-Eisenbahngesellschaft .

Around 1900 the line on the Oetrange – Wasserbillig border section was expanded to two tracks. The double-track expansion of the Luxembourg – Oetrange section was not carried out for the time being, instead the Berchem – Oetrange line was to be created as a bypass line for the Luxembourg train station. Since the construction work on the bypass was not progressing, the missing section Luxembourg – Oetrange was expanded to two tracks by the German Reich at the end of the First World War .

Between 1956 and 1959, the line was the normal Luxembourg voltage of 25 kV 50 Hz electrification .

For timetable change 2014/2015 in December 2014 was long-distance traffic by Deutsche Bahn (DB) from Koblenz via Trier set and Wasserbillig to Luxembourg. At the same time, a direct regional express connection from Koblenz to Luxembourg was set up.

Since December 10, 2017, a regional express train pair of the CFL has been running beyond Koblenz as an intercity route on line 37 to Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof.

Route

Pulvermühle Viaduct in front of the Luxembourg train station

Shortly after leaving the Luxembourg train station, the route crosses the Alzette with the help of the imposing powder mill viaduct . From the Stadtgrund junction, where the line leads to the Belgian border , the line runs on a single track towards Oetringen into the Syrtal. The Oetrange railway station is next to Luxembourg and Wasserbillig today the most important station of the route.

From Oetrange the line now follows two tracks along the Syr to Mertert , then through the Moselle valley to Wasserbillig station , where it crosses the Sauer and finally connects directly to the Trier western line .

In 2014 the line between Wasserbillig and Igel was expanded to two tracks and put into operation on December 14, 2014.

business

Class 2300 multiple unit of the CFL

On the route, regional express trains of line 11 run every hour from Luxembourg via Trier Hbf to Koblenz Hbf and RB trains of the CFL from Wasserbillig to Luxembourg. The trains to and from Germany are operated by DB Regio and the Luxembourg State Railways (CFL), the intra-Luxembourg trains only by the CFL.

For the 2014/2015 timetable change in December 2014, the regional rail passenger transport association Rhineland-Palatinate North introduced a continuous hourly regional train connection from Luxembourg to Koblenz to improve the connection between the Luxembourg rail network and the German Moselle route . In Trier, the regional express from Koblenz is “ winged ”: one part for onward travel to Luxembourg, the other via Saarbrücken to Mannheim. Since the planned rail connection from Luxembourg City to Findel Airport and Kirchberg has been stopped, consideration is currently being given to running the trains via Luxembourg station to Pfaffenthal in order to serve the Kirchberg plateau from there. This Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg station went into operation in 2017. In addition, public transport within Luxembourg has been available free of charge since March 2020 .

literature

• Ed Federmeyer: Railways in Luxemburg, Volume 1. Wolfgang Herdam Fotoverlag, Gernrode / Harz 2007

Web links

• Information about the route on rail.lu

Individual evidence

1. ^ Connection to Luxembourg - The Moselle-Syretal route. (No longer available online.) In: dampfspektakel.info. February 2002, archived from the original on June 22, 2012 ; accessed on August 18, 2018 .  
2. ↑ Ed Federmeyer: Railways in Luxembourg - Volume 1, p 262nd
3. ↑ Driver's cab ride Luxembourg – Trier
4. ↑ Marcus Stölb: "Geflügelt" to Luxembourg. Lëtzebuerger Journal , June 25, 2010, p. 5.