Mommenheim – Sarreguemines railway line

Mommenheim – Sarreguemines
Mommenheim station, 2015
Route number (SNCF) :	161,000; 178, 179 (1962)
Route length:	74.486 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	5  ‰
Dual track :	Yes
Legend Paris – Strasbourg railway from Strasbourg-Ville 479.7 0.0 Mommenheim 153 m Railway line Paris – Strasbourg to Paris-Est 2.3 A 4 5.0 Alteckendorf 178 m 7.6 Ettendorf 191 m 9.6 Tunnel de Buswiller (single track) (540 m) Steinbourg – Rastatt railway line from / to Haguenau 13.9 Modern 187 m Steinbourg – Rastatt railway line from / to Steinbourg 18.0 Menchhoffen (Menchhofen) 192 m Railway line Bouxwiller – Ingwiller to Bouxwiller 20.5 Ingwiller (Ingweiler) 196 m 26.4 Wimmenau 214 m 30.0 Wingen-sur-Moder (Wingen) 231 m Railway line Wingen – Münzthal to Münzthal-St. Louis 34.2 Tunnel de Puberg (1 626 m) 36.2 Puberg 259 m 39.0 Frohmuhl (Frohmuhl) 251 m 40.6 Tieffenbach-Struth (Tiefenbach-Struth) 246 m 44.1 Adamswiller (Adamsweiler) 241 m Railway Réding – Diemeringen from / n. Réding 48.4 Diemeringen 233 m 51.4 Cathedral bondage 229 m 52.8 Vœllerdingen (Völlerdingen) 227 m 53.5 Acorn (27 m) 57.6 Oermingen 221 m 58.1 Département border Bas-Rhin / Moselle Kalhausen – Sarralbe railway line from / to Sarralbe 61.6 Kalhausen 218 m 63.8 Saar and Saar Canal (160 m) 64.7 Wittring (Wittringen) 218 m 65.6 +67.5 Saar and Saar Canal (145 m + 105 m) (2 ×) 68.1 Zetting (Settingen) 216 m 70.4 Sarreinsming (Saareinsmingen) 212 m 72.0 Remelfing (Remelfingen) 208 m Haguenau – Falck-Hargarten railway line from Haguenau Bliestalbahn from Zweibrücken Berthelming – Sarreguemines railway line from / n. Berthelming ~ 74.1 D 662 (formerly N 61 ) 74.5 84.0 Sarreguemines (Saargemünd) 202 m Saarbrücken – Sarreguemines railway line to Saarbrücken Haguenau – Falck-Hargarten railway line to Béning

The Mommenheim – Sarreguemines railway line (actually, Mommenheim – Saargemünd in German ) is a double-track , non-electrified railway line in eastern France , which forms a section within the Metz – Strasbourg main line. It lies east of the Paris – Strasbourg railway line , from which it branches off in Mommenheim . The route is mainly served by passenger trains on the Saarbrücken – Strasbourg route. It serves as an alternative route for the main Paris – Strasbourg route.

It is owned by the National Railways Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) and is managed by the SNCF Réseau . Until 1997, the line went as Ligne 9 beyond Saargemünd to Hanweiler on the border with Saarland and was called the Mommenheim – Hanweiler line .

history

Under the direction of the German company Reichseisenbahnen in Alsace-Lorraine , the line was put into operation in two sections in 1895, the southerly on May 1st, between Kalhausen and Saargemünd on October 1st of the same year. Like the other routes in this region, ownership changed repeatedly due to the wars in the first half of the century. In addition, the newly founded SNCF took over the route from the Chemins de fer d'Alsace et de Lorraine (AL) in 1938 .

Until before the Second World War , the route was very successful in both freight and passenger traffic. Many mining goods from Belgium and the Saar region to southern Germany and Switzerland were processed through them . Express trains ran here from Metz to Nuremberg or from Strasbourg to Cologne via Trier. With the electrification of the Réding – Metz-Ville railway at the end of 1956, its importance for freight transport decreased significantly. The question of closure arose; other routes that branch off from here were gradually closed.

Regionalization in the mid-1980s and liberalization and railroading in the early 2000s was a blessing for the route. The initiative was taken by the Alsace region , which took the unpopular Corail coaches from the 1970s off the rails and used newer multiple units, later mainly the X 73500 series , for them. The trains were more comfortable, faster and ran in time . In addition, the timetables and many stops have been improved.

Web links

Commons : Mommenheim – Saargemünd railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Map of the route on rue du petit train

literature

• André Schontz et al .: Le chemin de fer en Lorraine . Editions Serpenoise 1999, ISBN 978-2876924147

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SNCF: Region de l'est. Carnet de Profils et Schémas , 1962, sheet 178
2. ^ Mommenheim: Le chemin de fer . Site of the municipality
3. ↑ ^{a b} Sarreguemines – Mommenheim (line 9) . Trains-en-Voyage, June 1st, 2009
4. ↑ Joël Fort Hoffer: L'Articulation of dessertes regional TER avec le TGV Est Europeen, un exemple de continuite territorial. In: Interrégionalité et réseaux de transports: actes du colloque de Besançon , September 14 and 15, 2005. ISBN 978-2848672984 , pages 67–72