Mâcon – Ambérieu railway line

Mâcon – Ambérieu
Bourg-en-Bresse train station, west wing, summer 2016
Route number (SNCF) :	883,000
Route length:	68.3 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	1.5 kW  =
Maximum slope :	8  ‰
Top speed:	140-160 km / h
Dual track :	Yes
Legend Paris – Marseille railway line from Paris-Gare-de-Lyon 439.7 0.0 Mâcon -Ville 189 m Railway line Moulins – Mâcon to Moulins Paris – Marseille railway line to Lyon-Perrache ~ 1.2 D 906 (formerly RN 6 ) Mâcon harbor 2.5 Saône ( Viaduc de Genève ; 199 m); Saône-et-Loire / Ain department 3.1 Pont des Quatre-Arches (35 m) 3.6 Veyle ( Pont de Trois-Arches ; 27 m) 4.9 A 406 7.3 Junction Pont de Veyle , LGV Sud-Est from Paris ~ 7.7 D 933 (formerly RN 433 ) 7.8 Pont-de-Veyle 178 m 9.8 Saint-Jean-sur-Veyle 184 m 17.0 Vonnas 192 m 21.5 Mézériat 197 m 27.6 Polliat 204 m ~ 33.5 Chalon-sur-Saône – Bourg-en-Bresse v. Chalon 36.5 Mouchard – Bourg-en-Bresse railway from Mouchard ~ 36.4 several industrial sidings ~ 36.8 D 936 (formerly RN 436 ) 37.0 Bourg-en-Bresse 241 m ~ 37.5 D 1083 (formerly RN 83 ) Railway line Bourg-en-Bresse – Bellegarde to Bellegarde Railway line Lyon-Saint-Clair-Bourg-en-Bresse to Lyon 46.5 A 40 46.9 La Vavrette-Tossiat 253 m 51.1 Saint-Martin-du-Mont 264 m 53.7 A 40 55.3 Suran (22 m) 55.6 A 42 56.5 Pont d'Ain 245 m ~ 57.0 D 984 (formerly RN 84 ) 57.4 Ain (132 m) 61.3 Ambronay - Priay 241 m ~ 65.4 D 1075 (formerly RN 75 ) ~ 66.1 D 904 (today as an underpass; formerly RN 504 ) Lyon – Genève railway from Geneva-Cornavin 68.3 51.5 Ambérieu 247 m Ambérieu – Montalieu-Vercieu line to Lagnieu Railway line Lyon – Genève to Lyon-Perrache

The Mâcon – Ambérieu railway is a double-track , standard-gauge railway in France . It establishes a connection between the north-south direction running Paris – Marseille railway line and the east-west connection Geneva – Lyon . Near Mâcon near Pont-de-Veyle there is a connection to the high-speed line from Paris to Lyon (LGV Sud-Est). On the Mâcon – Ambérieu route, there are freight trains and regional trains operated by TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , as well as TGV trains from Paris to destinations in the Savoy , as well as the Paris-Geneva connection operated by TGV Lyria .

history

Vonnas train station, 2016

The concession for the construction and operation of the line was granted on April 30, 1853 to the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Lyon à Genève (CLG), which was founded only a year earlier. In June 1857, the PLM took over the route, making it one of the company's oldest routes.

The opening of the line took place in three stages: on June 23, 1856 the southern section Bourg-en-Bresse - Ambérieu went into operation, on May 6 of the following year the line Bourg-en-Bresse to the east bank of the Saône and two and a half months later, on July 20, 1857, the bridge over the river to the Mâcon-Ville station. The route for the entire line was double-tracked from the start, but the second track was only built between May 1859 and December 1860. In the section Mâcon-Ville-Bourg-en-Bresse, the second track was removed in 1944 and reinstalled eleven years later. 1955 was also the year in which the line was electrified with 1.5 kV direct current .

business

The route is served by line 30 of the TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , whereby the two-power version of the AGC trains are used in single and double traction . Numerous TGV trains of all kinds operate on the route, mainly connecting Paris with Geneva, Annecy and Evian-les-Bains . In winter sports, the trains also run to Bourg-Saint-Maurice , Albertville and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains . There are also occasional Eurostar trains from London or Thalys trains from Amsterdam . The route is used by freight trains operated by SNCF and other railway companies .

Web links

• Ligne Mâcon - Ambérieu. In: fandom.com. Retrieved August 3, 2020 (French). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SNCF Region du Sud-Est. Carnet de profils et schémas , 1959. Sheet 100