Mohon – Thionville railway line
The Mohon – Thionville railway is a French railway line that is fully two-track and electrified. It is part of the old Calais – Basel connection and, even if there are no longer any continuous passenger trains between the two cities, it has an important function for freight traffic between northern France and Lorraine.
history
The route construction ran from west to east. In mid-December 1858, the first, almost 14-kilometer-long section Mohon – Donchery was put into operation, which was operated by the Chemin de fer de l'Est (Est) company and directly connected to the tracks of the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord (Nord ) were built.
With a parliamentary resolution of July 20, 1853, the northern railway companies were merged into the Compagnie des chemins de fer des Ardennes . The previous route network has been supplemented by various concessions for route construction totaling 417 kilometers, including the one from Sedan to Thionville.
This route was a valuable addition to the route network, as the Metz – Luxembourg line with the Thionville junction was completed in 1854. The last of a total of six sections, the one from Pierrepont to the Thionville terminus, was inaugurated on April 25, 1863 and put into operation.
The line was destroyed in the First World War , but was quickly repaired by the field railways .
The electrification took place in 1954/55, the automatic light signal block control Bloc Automatique Lumineux (BAL) as early as 1953.
Driving operation
Today there is only local passenger transport after all long-distance connections on this tangent without connection to major traffic centers disappeared by the end of the 20th century. Especially in traffic with Great Britain , this route was an important section for trains from southern Germany. Today, passenger transport is only served regionally and is divided into two sections. The route known as TER line 2 comes from Paris and Reims and continues via Charleville-Mézières to Longuyon and ends in Longwy . The TER-7 line connects Longuyon with Thionville.
literature
- L. Grippon-Lamotte: Historique du réseau des chemins de fer français: Les six grandes compagnies. Le réseau "état. , Gaignault-Verlag, 1904
- François and Maguy Palau: Le rail en France , self-published 2001, volume 2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bulletin des Lois, 2 e sem. 1853, No. 85, p. 355
- ↑ GRIPPON-Lamotte: Historique du réseau des chemins de fer français: Les six free company. Le réseau "état. , Gaignault-Verlag, 1904, p. 123f.
- ↑ Overview of the larger engineering structures restored during the German advance on the Belgian and French railways. , P. 221f.
- ↑ Route information
Web links
- Overview map of the railways in the western theater of war , appendix from: Das Deutsche Feldisenbahnwesen , Vol. 1, Verlag ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1944.