Marseille – Ventimiglia railway line

Marseille-Saint-Charles-Ventimiglia
Route map
Route number (SNCF) :	930,000
Course book route (SNCF) :	505
Route length:	259.246 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	1500 V  =
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	8  ‰
Top speed:	160 km / h
Dual track :	Yes
Legend 0.000 Marseille-Saint-Charles 49  m to Marseille-Joliette from Paris and Grenoble 3.258 Marseille-Blancarde 50  m to Marseille-Prado 5.450 System change 1.5 kV / 25 kV 6.237 La Pomme 45  m 6.767 ( A 50 ) 8,414 Saint-Marcel 52  m 10, 000 La Barrasse planned 12,448 La Penne-sur-Huveaune 77  m 15.682 (A 50) 16.945 Aubagne 101  m to La Barque 18.161 (Huveaune; 32 m) 20.248 Tunnel d'Aubagne (403 m) 23,580 Tunnel du Mussuguet (2625 m) 26,848 Cassis 128  m 27,709 Tunnel de Collongue (154 m) 29,000 Jeannots tunnel (1625 m) from La Ciotat-Ville 36.517 La Ciotat 62  m 39.960 Saint-Antoine 28  m 43.156 Saint-Cyr - Les-Lecques - La-Cadière 25  m 45.397 Tunnel de Saint-Cyr (357 m) 50.607 Bandol 36  m 52.455 Viaduc du Grand Vallat ( Grand Vallat ; 306 m) 57.472 Ollioules - Sanary 17  m to Toulon Port 61.820 La Seyne - Six-Fours 18  m 62.997 (A 50) 66.982 Toulon 19  m 70.300 ( A 57 ) 74,303 La Garde 27  m 77.125 La Pauline - Hyères 36  m 77.487 Turn off to Les Salins-d'Hyères 77.627 ( A 570 ) to Les Salins-d'Hyères 80.588 La Farlède 59  m 83.808 Solliès-Pont 83  m 89.939 Cuers - Pierrefeu 121  m 90,800 (A 57) 97.125 Puget-Ville 168  m 101.475 Carnoules 193  m to Gardanne 104.678 Pignans 170  m 109.889 Gonfaron 186  m 120.190 Le Luc and Le Cannet 120  m 120.300 ( A 8 ) 129.887 Vidauban 61  m Les Arcs - Draguignan 62  m to Draguignan 143.437 Le Muy 20  m 147.600 (A 8) 149.348 Roquebrune-sus-Argens 13  m 153.087 Puget-sus-Argens 12  m 157.998 Fréjus 8  m 159.850 Fréjus-St-Raphaël (car loading) 161.091 Saint-Raphaël - Valescure 164.869 Boulouris-sur-Mer 12  m 167,500 Le Dramont 16  m 169.947 Agay 4  m 170.001 (Agay river; 76 m) 170.700 Tunnel d'Agay (155 m) 173.787 Anthéor - Cap Roux 30  m 174.063 Viaduc d'Anthéor (217 m) 177.259 Maubois tunnel (120 m) 179,571 Le Trayas 31  m 181,407 Saoumes tunnel (974 m) 184.244 Théoule-sur-Mer 19  m 184.653 Viaduc de la Rague (228 m) 185.499 Mandelieu-la-Napoule 8  m 186.585 ( Siagne ; 164 m) 186.688 Pinède de la Siagne 5  m 189.622 Cannes-Marchandises from Grasse 190.405 Cannes-La Bocca 4  m (Cannes city tunnel; 2087 m) 193.132 Cannes 6  m 199.169 Golfe Juan - Vallauris 4  m 202.318 Juan-les-Pins 10  m 204.151 Antibes 10  m 206,807 (Pont de la Brague ; 164 m) 207.063 Biot 5  m 209.230 Villeneuve-Loubet -plage 6  m 211.328 (Loup river; 60 m) 211.647 Hippodrome de la Côte d'Azur (planned) 10  m 212.713 Cagnes-sur-Mer 10  m 213,251 (Cagnes Bach; 40 m) 214,348 Cros-de-Gagnes 14  m 216.763 Saint-Laurent-du-Var 12  m 217.183 ( Var ; 684 m) 217.729 ( N 202 ; 124 m) 218,601 (Route de Grenoble; 159 m) 218,746 Nice -Saint-Augustin 11  m 222.857 (Nice city tunnel; 700 m) 224.114 Nice-Ville 16  m 224.379 (Avenue Malausséna; 150 m) to Breil-sur-Roya 225.997 ( Paillon ; 206 m) 226.760 Nice-Riquier 19  m 227.120 Tunnel de Villefranche (1518 m) 228.726 Villefranche-sur-Mer 13  m 230.723 Beaulieu-sur-Mer 20  m 232.239 Tunnel de Cap-Roux (419 m) 233,532 Èze 18  m 234.682 Tunnel de Cap Estel (544 m) 235.774 Tunnel de Saint-Laurent (646 m) 236.653 Tunnel de Mala (168 m) 236,928 Cap d'Ail 24  m 237,146 Tunnel de Rognoux (214 m) 237,400 (until 1999) 237.495 Tunnel de Monaco (2340 m) Tunnel de la Batterie (198 m) France - Monaco state border 239.626 Monaco - Monte-Carlo 239.833 (until 1964) 240.205 Monaco - Monte-Carlo 27  m Sainte-Dévote tunnel (132 m) Monte-Carlo Tunnel (3012 m) 240.470 (until 1999) 240.997 Monte Carlo 240.629 State border Monaco – France 243,374 243,478 (until 1964) 243,480 Monte Carlo Country Club 28  m 244,483 Cap Martin - Roquebrune 28  m 245.656 Tunnel de Cap-Martin (625 m) 246,800 Carnolès 14  m 248,600 Menton 16  m 249.665 Tunnel de Menton (473 m) 250.940 Menton-Garavan 16  m 251,934 France - Italy border 253,988 Batteria Tunnel (348 m) from Breil-sur-Roya 259.246 Ventimiglia 9  m slm to Genoa

The Marseille – Ventimiglia railway is a double-track main line in France , Monaco and Italy and is the western continuation of the Genoa – Ventimiglia railway .

history

TGV Duplex at Cap Roux

In 1852 it was decided to build a railway line between Marseille and Toulon . The reason was the desired development of the military port of Toulon, which is why the French state provided 26 million francs for the construction according to a law passed in 1842. In total, the partial openings of the route took 14 years. The first section of the line went into operation on October 20, 1858 between Marseille and Aubagne by the PLM .

On May 3 of the following year it was extended to Toulon, before the tracks reached the station of Les Arcs on September 1, 1862, and then via a later branch line to Draguignan . In 1863 the section to Cagnes-sur-Mer was put into operation and in 1864 the one to Nice. Four years later the principality of Monaco was reached and in 1869 Menton . On March 18, 1872, the cross-border gap between Menton and Ventimiglia was closed after the Italian coastal city had received a rail connection from Genoa just two months earlier, on January 25, 1872 . 1875 was followed by the branch line from Les Paulines to Les Salins d ' Hyères . The construction involved a difficulty in the form of the Massif des Maures , in which between 7,000 and 8,000 mostly Piedmontese , Belgian or German workers were employed in 1862 .

Due to the increasing tourism, the railway line soon developed into an important connection, on which trains from various countries brought holiday guests to the Côte d'Azur . From around 1880 until the Second World War, these were mainly international luxury trains such as the Train Bleu or the Riviera Express . In 1925 the CIWL ran its first Pullman Express with the Milano – Nice – Pullman – Express . After the war, Trans-Europ-Express trains such as the TEE Mistral from Paris and the TEE Ligure from Milan were added until the TGV connections went into operation .

The electrification, like the construction, dragged on over several years. In 1965 the section between Marseille and Les Arcs including the branch line to Hyères was energized, in 1967 the section between Les Arcs and Saint-Raphaël , in 1968 the section to Cannes was electrified, before the entire line between Marseille and Ventimiglia on January 28, 1969 was electrified. Between Marseille-St Charles and Marseille-La Pomme, as well as between the French-Italian border and the Ventimiglia terminus, the line was electrified with 1500 volts DC , on the rest of the line with 25 kilovolts 50 Hertz AC. That is why only two-system vehicles are used for TER with the electric locomotives of the BB 22200 series or the double-decker multiple units of the Z 24500 and Z 6500 series. In any case, all TGV generations can at least operate under the two French electricity systems.

TGVs have been running on the route since April 4, 1987, after Toulon and Hyères were connected in 1984. Initially they connected Nice via Marseille with Paris , Lille , Lyon or Geneva , today they operate all the way to Ventimiglia. In 2008 the TER Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur introduced the regular timetable on its lines.

In 2011, the route hit the headlines when, on April 17, 2011, France had a TER PACA train from Ventimiglia, which was mostly filled with Tunisian refugees and human rights activists, stop and evacuate the connection between Menton and Ventimiglia for the entire day blocked. The reason was the large number of Tunisian migrants who had received visas when they entered Italy and who wanted to move to France with them. As a result, the Ventimiglia train station was occupied by around 200 Tunisians and human rights activists. Despite major criticism, France received EU support for the measure.

business

The SNCF operates various long-distance and regional connections over the route:

Long-distance transport

TGV

• Paris Gare de Lyon / Metz / Bruxelles-Midi / Lille Europe / Geneva-Cornavin / Dijon-Ville –Marseille– Nice-Ville (–Ventimiglia) with stops in Marseille-Saint-Charles , Toulon, Les Arcs-Draguignan, Saint-Raphaël -Valescure, Cannes , Antibes , Nice-Ville, Monaco - Monte Carlo , Menton and Ventimiglia

Some of the train runs end in Toulon or Hyères.

Intercités

• Intercités Bordeaux Saint-Jean – Nice Ville with stops in Marseille-Saint Charles, Toulon, Les Arcs-Draguignan, Saint-Raphaël-Valescure, Cannes, Antibes and Nice-Ville
• Night train Intercités de nuit Paris Austerlitz – Nice Ville with stops in Toulon, Les Arcs-Draguignan, Fréjus- Saint-Raphaël, Saint-Raphaël-Valescure, Cannes, Antibes and Nice-Ville
• Night train Intercités de nuit Strasbourg - Nice Ville with stops in Marseille-Saint Charles, Toulon, Les Arcs-Draguignan, Saint-Raphaël-Valescure, Cannes, Antibes and Nice-Ville

Regional traffic

The TER PACA is present with various lines, the busiest ones are the accelerated line (analogous to a German regional express ), which runs between Marseille and Ventimiglia, and the one between Grasse and Ventimiglia, which runs between Cannes La-Bocca station - where it ended earlier - and Ventimiglia uses the route. There is also a regional line between Marseille and Nice, so that there is a condensed cycle between Cannes and Nice.

future

The future is marked by significant expansion plans for the partially congested line: In the greater Nice area, the line from Antibes to Cagnes-sur-Mer was to be continuously expanded to three-track, the third track between Antibes and Cagnes-sur-Mer went into operation on December 15, 2013 taken. ^[obsolete] The same is planned between Marseille and Aubagne.

Web links

Commons : Marseille – Ventimiglia railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ François Palau, Maguy Palau: Le rail en France. Tome II. 1858-1863 . S. 53 .
2. ^ François Palau, Maguy Palau: Le rail en France. Tom III. 1864-1870 . S. 28 .
3. ^ Magazine Le Train, Hors-série, L'arc méditerranéen, p. 45
4. ↑ France stops trains from Italy. NZZ Online , accessed on April 20, 2011 . 
5. ↑ dispute over special visas for refugees. Deutsche Welle , accessed April 20, 2011 . 
6. ↑ EU stands behind France in the dispute over refugees. Reuters , accessed April 20, 2011 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Report of the RFF ( Memento from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Nice matin: SNCF: entre Antibes et Cagnes, la 3e voie avance bon train ( memorial of November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), November 3, 2012