Lyon-Saint-Clair-Bourg-en-Bresse railway line

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Lyon-Saint-Clair-Bourg-en-Bresse
Sathonay Railway Station, 1920s
Sathonay Railway Station, 1920s
Route number (SNCF) : 886,000
Route length: 56.7 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : Lyon – Sathonay 1.5 kV  =
Maximum slope : 20 (in the tunnel des Mercières
Dual track : partly yes
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Route - straight ahead
Railway line Collonges-Fontaines-Lyon-Guillotière v. Lyon-G.
u. Lyon – Genève railway from Lyon-Perrache
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~ 8.0 Rhône (~ 270 m)
   
8.4 Lyon -Saint-Clair (wedge station) 177 m
   
Collonges-Fontaines – Lyon-Guillotière n. Collonges railway line
Road bridge
~ 8.5 D 483 (formerly N 84 )
   
Railway line Lyon – Genève to Geneva
Tunnel - if there are several tunnels in a row
8.6 Tunnel de Saint-Clair (88m)
Tunnel - if there are several tunnels in a row
8.8 Tunnel de Vassieux (163 m)
Road bridge
~ 9.2 D 483 (formerly N 84)
Bridge (medium)
~ 10.9 D 483 (formerly N 84)
Road bridge
~ 11.4 formerly N 83 (today without traffic)
tunnel
12.6 Tunnel des Mercières (1168 m)
   
Railway line Lyon-Croix-Rousse-Trévoux from Lyon-La Croix R.
Station, station
13.5 Sathonay - Rillieux 265 m
   
13.7 Railway line Lyon-Croix-Rousse-Trévoux to Trévoux
   
Lyon-Saint-Clair junction; LGV Sud-Est of Paris
   
~ 18.7 Border of the Rhône / Ain department
Plan-free intersection - above
~ 19.2 LGV Rhône-Alpes to Marseille
Road bridge
19.8 A 46
Stop, stop
20.7 Les Échets 278 m
Stop, stop
23.4 Mionnay 288 m
Station, station
27.4 Saint-André-de-Corcy 297 m
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
28.5 Etang de Sure
Stop, stop
32.0 Saint-Marcel-en-Dombes 287 m
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
33.5 Étang Grand-Glareins (2 ×)
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
35.2 Étang des Combes
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
36.5 Étang du Grand-Turlet
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
37.6 Chalaronne
   
~ 37.9 D 70 (formerly N 504 )
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Ars – Ambérieu-en-B railway line. ( Tramways de l'Ain , TA) n. Ars
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38.1 Villars-les-Dombes 280 m
            
Ars – Ambérieu (TA) railway to Ambérieu-en-Bugey
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
39.6 Étang Chénevier
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
40.2 Étang Filiolière
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
45.0 Renon
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Marlieux – Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne (TA) railway line v. Châtillon
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45.8 Marlieux - Châtillon 270 m
Station, station
51.7 Saint-Paul-de-Varax 268 m
Bridge (small)
~ 52.1 D 70B (formerly N 83)
Stop, stop
56.3 Servas - Lent 266 m
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
59.4 Veyle
   
Mâcon – Ambérieu railway from Ambérieu
   
Bourg-en-Bresse – Bellegarde railway from Bellegarde
Road bridge
~ 64.6 D 1083 (formerly N 83)
Station, station
65.1 Bourg-en-Bresse 241 m
   
Chalon-sur-Saône – Bourg-en-Bresse to Chalon railway line
   
Railway Mâcon – Ambérieu to Mâcon
Route - straight ahead
Mouchard – Bourg-en-Bresse to Bourg-en-Bresse railway line

The Lyon-Saint-Clair – Bourg-en-Bresse railway is a partly double-track , approximately 57-kilometer-long railway line in France . It creates a connection between the metropolitan region of Lyon in the south with routes to Mâcon , Dijon , Besançon and Geneva and beyond to Paris-Gare de Lyon and Mulhouse . It is used in both passenger and freight traffic.

history

The route was launched by the Gesellschaft de la Dombes , based in Croix-Rousse. The Compagnie de la Dombes was on September 2, 1864 by Louis Frémy (1805-1891), governor of the Crédit Foncier , the businessman and philanthropist François Barthélemy Arlès-Dufour (1797-1872), Alexandre Bodin (1804-1893), and MP Member of the National Assembly in the Second Empire , Léopold, Count Le Hon (1832–1879), son of Charles Le Hon and head of cabinet of Count Charles de Morny , the engineer and railway pioneer Félix Mangini (1836–1902), Amédée Sellier (1839–1922) , Attaché of the French commissariat at the London World's Fair and director of the Journal des Travaux Publics and Lucien Mangini (1833–1900). A supplementary contract approved the use of the tracks between La Croix-Rousse and Sathonay-Rillieux , which belonged to the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer de Lyon Croix-Rousse-Sathonay . The Society de la Dombes was not supposed to exist for eight years.

Surroundings of Lyon Route map
Surroundings of Lyon
Route map

First, the line from Sathonay to Bourg-en-Bresse was opened on September 1, 1866, which means that there was still no connection to the rest of the railway traffic in Lyon, because the Lyon-Croix-Rousse-Trévoux railway was an island when it was built and therefore only existed was connected with this railway line in 1866 to the rest of the railway network in France .

The construction of this line falls in the time of great rail prosperity, in which more and more new companies were founded in order to “jump on the train”. The investment market was extremely agile and as quickly as new ventures sprang up, they disappeared. This was also the case with the Compagnie de la Dombes , which on February 28, 1872, joined the Compagnie du Chemin de fer de Lyon (la Croix-Rousse) au camp de Sathonay to the Compagnie des Dombes et des chemins de fer du Sud- Est (DSE) merges public limited company. The terms of the takeover were contested and went to court. First to Lyon, then in the second instance to the Court of Cassation , which denied the accusations in 1904. This new company, DSE, was headed by the Mangini brothers. But their financial strength was too weak and they were beaten by the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM), from which they were taken over on July 28, 1881.

On April 12, 1875, the course was set for the extension towards Lyon. A decree confirms the public interest in this route. Special measures were necessary to achieve this. The 1,168 m long tunnel des Mercières had to be dug with a continuous gradient of 19 ‰ - other sources speak of 20 ‰ - in order to cope with the difference in height. The route was initially only opened for freight traffic on May 15, and also for passenger traffic from November 8.

At first only one track was laid, but a little later the second was added on the line designed for two tracks, but was dismantled again in the early 1920s for strategic reasons in order to be able to relocate it on war-important routes near the front. This was reversed in the Second World War in 1942, but just a year later the Germans dismantled this track for their own purposes. A complete restoration of the dual track system was completed at the end of August 2008. The bridge over the A 46 or its city bypass A 462 is still a bottleneck .

Individual evidence

  1. SNCF Region du Sud-Est. Carnet de profils et schémas , 1959. Sheet 98
  2. Décret qui Declare d'utilité publique d'un Embranchement de Chemin de fer à destiné relier la ligne de Sathonay à Bourg à celle de Lyon à Genève. . In: Bulletin des lois de la République française . Paris 1875, pp. 594-595
  3. émission d'obligations. - mise en liquidation. - Cessation de l'amortissement. - Remboursement anticipe. - Renonciation au bénéfice du terme. Dommages-intérêts . Court of Cassation, 20 July 1904. In: Revue des sociétés: recueil mensuel de jurisprudence, doctrine, législation française et étrangère… , Dalloz, Paris, January 1905
  4. Loi qui approuve les Conventions passées, les 26 May et 9 June 1883, entre le Ministre des Travaux publics et la Compagnie des Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée. In: Bulletin des lois de la République française , Paris January 1884
  5. Rapport du président et procès-verbaux of deliberations - Rhône General Council . Conseil général du Rhône, 1893, p. 420
  6. ^ Declaration de projet pour les travaux d'amélioration de la ligne Lyon-Bourg-en-Bresse . Bulletins Officiels n ° 12, March 2006 on Internet Archive