Metz – Château-Salins railway line

Metz-Château-Salins
Route number (SNCF) :	99,000
Route length:	58.04 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Luxembourg 0.0 Metz-Ville (178 m) to Lérouville and Nancy 3.3 to Saarbrücken 6.2 End of the route ⊙ 8.2 Augny (Auning) 10 Marly (Marleien) 13 Coin-les-Cuvry (Kuberneck) 15.5 Coin-sur-Seille (Selzeck) Seille (Moselle) 17.5 Pommerieux - Verny (Pomeringen-Werningen) 19.5 Goin - Sillegny (Göhn-Sillingen) 22.5 Louvigny (Loveningen 25.5 Vigny (Wingert (Lorraine)) LGV Est européenne Secourt (Moselle) 29.5 Siding ammunition depot Ressaincourt 29.5 Secourt - Solgne 35 Liocourt (Linhofen) 38 Puzieux (Püschingen) 41 Delme (Delm) 43.4 Oriocourt (Orhofen) 47 Fresnes-en-Saulnois (ash trees by the forest) Champigneulles – Sarralbe railway line from Sarreguemines 58.1 Château-Salins (206 m) to the Champigneulles – Sarralbe railway line

The Metz – Château-Salins railway was a single-track, non-electrified railway line in Lorraine . It was built on May 1 and December 1, 1904 by the Reichseisenbahnen in Alsace-Lorraine for strategic reasons in two sections at kilometer 35 and opened to traffic. The course book number 216f was intended as a connecting line to the Paris – Strasbourg line (no. 216).

The route ran more or less parallel to the German-French border. After the two lost world wars, the route changed to the French Eastern Railway . During the German occupation 1940-1945 the names of the stations were Germanized . The unprofitable route was closed to passenger traffic in 1953 and to freight traffic in 1972. In Château-Salins there was a connection to the Champigneulles – Sarralbe railway line . The line was de-dedicated in two stages in July 1973 and December 1992. From the Augny train station at km 8.3, the tracks have been dismantled and many roads have been built over them.

Web links

• Historic postcard from the Château-Salins train station ( Memento from December 25, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bulletin des transports internationaux par chemins de fer: Journal for international rail traffic, volumes 71-72, Office centrale des transports internationaux par chemins de fer , January 1, 1905, p. 256; Impr. Friedli, 1963
2. ^ Baron Viktor von Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railway System, p. 293 f. , 2nd edition, 1912-1924
3. ↑ Etienne Biellmann: History of the railway stations (French)
4. ↑ Etienne Biellmann: History of the railway stations (French)