Metz – Anzeling railway line

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Metz-Anzeling
Vigy Railway Station 1907
Vigy Railway Station 1907
Route number (SNCF) : 174,000
Course book route (SNCF) : 267c
Route length: 30.9 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Region (F): Lorraine
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Béning and Nancy
Station, station
154.3
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Metz-Ville (178 m)
   
 to Luxembourg
   
 Metz-Stadt bypass
   
 Metz-Stadt bypass
   
 Metz – Luxembourg railway line
   
 2.8 Tunnel de Borny 70 m
   
 4.4 Vantoux (Wanten-Wallern) (207 m)
   
 Viaduct de Vantoux
   
 6.7 Nouilly (Nieverlach) (215 m)
   
 8th Tunnel de Failly 770 m
   
 9 Viaduc de Failly 574 m
   
 9.9 Failly (falling) (230 m)
   
 12.2 Sanry-lès-Vigy (Senn near Wigingen) (240 m)
   
 15.5 Vigy (Wigingen) (251 m)
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Stop, stop
 17.8 Hessange
Station, station
 19.9 Bettelainville (Bettsdorf) (233 m)
   
 Merzig – Bettelainville railway line
   
 21st Viaduc de la Canner 262 m
   
 21.2 Viaduc de Villers 170 m
   
 23.4 Villers-Bettnach (St. Hubert) (229 m)
   
 24.3 Saint-Bernard tunnel 925 m
   
 27.1 Piblange (Pieblingen) (221 m)
   
 from Thionville (Diedenhofen)
Station, station
 30.9 Anzeling (Anslingen) (208 m)
Route - straight ahead
 to Völklingen

The Metz – Anzeling railway existed between 1908 and 1944 and was part of the strategic railways network in the Lorraine deployment area . With the destruction of the four viaducts by the Wehrmacht , the route had lost its importance and no longer had a future. Long on the three and a half kilometer section Vigy - Bettelainville which is part of the twelve kilometer stretch Vigy- Hombourg-Budange is today still runs the private museum railway Chemin de fer touristique de la vallée de la Canner .

history

The former Borny railway tunnel ( 49 ° 7 ′ 12 ″  N , 6 ° 12 ′ 58 ″  E )

The 30-kilometer section cost 24 million gold marks , i.e. 800,000 gold marks per kilometer. As usual, the county contributed 40,000 gold marks per kilometer.

The construction of the route caused great difficulties for the engineers, as the topography represented a series of larger and smaller ridges that had to be crossed by the line. When puncture of Failly - tunnel several successive landslides occurred which delayed the construction. No line in Lorraine built by the Germans required more engineering structures than the Metz – Anzeling line. The costs were therefore immense: the almost 600-meter-long Failly Viaduct, which was the longest railway bridge in Lorraine until it was destroyed, cost 2.5 million marks, the adjoining tunnel cost another 1.8 million marks. Mark. The line was laid out and operated on two tracks from the start. She was both the passenger and, as for freight and mail services provided. Some trains on the Paris Est - Frankfurt Hbf route ran on this route. The line continued via Dillingen and Türkismühle ( Nahe Valley Railway ), it was part of the shortest route between Metz and Mainz ; It was therefore given extremely important strategic importance.

In 1946 the short section between Metz and Vantoux was reopened as there was no major damage to the railway systems. Vantoux train station was used by workers from the Legris shoe factory, which was located nearby.

The only engineering structure that is in use today is the 70-meter-long tunnel de Borny , through which the two-lane expressway runs as a feeder to the A4 autoroute into town .

literature

  • André Schontz, Arsène Felten, Marcel Gourlot: Le chemin de fer en Lorraine. Edition Serpenoise 1999, ISBN 9782876924147

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 100 Ans de Chemin de Fer. In: Metzer Zeitung , March 25, 1908 ( Memento of December 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Chemin de fer touristique de la vallée de la Canner , accessed on June 22, 2013
  2. ^ Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railways: Alsace-Lorraine Railways. Vol. 4, Berlin / Vienna, 1912–1913 , at zeno.org
  3. ↑ Républicain Lorrain: La gare de Vantoux en 2010 , February 24, 2010