Mont-sur-Meurthe – Bruyères railway line

Mont-sur-Meurthe-Bruyères
Mont-sur-Meurthe, July 2016
Route number (SNCF) :	065 000
Course book route (SNCF) :	23 7
Route length:	54.6 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	15  ‰
Legend Railway Paris – Strasbourg from Strasbourg 380.4 0.0 Mont-sur-Meurthe 222 m Paris – Strasbourg line to Paris-Est station 0.5 Meuse (144 m) 3.3 Xermaménil-Lamath 224 m 9.7 Gerbéviller 253 m 14.6 Mortagne (42 m) 15.0 Moyen 247 m 17.2 Mortagne (54 m) 17.3 Vallois 242 m 18.7 Magnières 250 m ~ 21.5 Meurthe-et-Moselle / Vosges department 21.9 Deinvillers 256 m 25.4 Roville-Saint-Maurice 267 m 28.5 Romont 269 ​​m Charmes – Rambervillers railway from Charmes (Vosges) 32.2 Padozel (12 m) 32.7 Rambervillers 289 m 33.2 Mortagne (2 × 16 m) 33.9 Blanchifontaine 302 m 340. End of expansion 35.9 Jeanménil 305 m 39.6 Autrey-Sainte-Hélène 320 m 39.9 Mortagne (13 m) 43.1 Fremifontaine 340 m 46.5 Mortagne (13 m) 47.5 Brouvelieures 370 m 50.0 Belmont 411 m 54.1 Arches – Saint-Dié to Saint-Dié railway line 54.6 19.3 Bruyères (Vosges) 463 m Arches – Saint-Dié railway to Arches and Épinal

The Mont-sur-Meurthe – Bruyères railway is a former single-track railway in Grand Est in France . It connected the main line Paris – Strasbourg with the Arches – Saint-Dié railway in the south, which established a large-scale connection between Épinal and Strasbourg . Today it is completely dismantled.

history

Unloading a freight train in Rambervillers to supply the troops.

The investor for the first section of this route was the Belgian banker Nicolas Parent-Pécher from Tournai , who, together with partners, also pioneered other early railway projects in Belgium and France. The concession for this route was granted on December 7, 1872 and declared of public interest on August 8, 1873, i.e. also intended for passenger traffic.

This route found its way into the Freycinet plan with number 27 , which confirms the importance of the construction. The plan was published on July 17, 1879. During the First World War, the infrastructure of this route was used for military purposes.

Until his death on January 9, 1880, Parent-Pécher did not manage to create the route on time, as agreed with the département. The work had only reached Gerbéviller train station, which was about 10 km away, and the concession expired. On January 13, 1881, the planned route was assigned to the Chemin de fer de l'Est , which also managed all neighboring routes here. In accordance with the provisions of the Freycinet plan, the state paid for the construction of the line, but did not give it priority. The opening of individual sections took place as follows:

Opening of sections

date	section
August 8, 1873	Lunéville – Gerbéviller
August 21, 1882	Gerbéviller – Bruyères
October 28, 1882	Mont-sur-Meurthe-Gerbéviller
October 10, 1902	Rambervillers – Bruyères
December 28, 1911	Gerbéviller – Rambervillers

Passenger traffic between Rambervillers and Gerbéviller was discontinued in 1969, the rest of the route in 1980, freight traffic in 1988. Today, only a few stations and marshals are reminiscent of this heavily built route.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frans Buelens, Julien van den Broeck: Financieel institute Ionele analysis van de Belgische beursgenoteerde spoorwegsector 1836-1957 . Garant 2004, ISBN 978-9044-11622-9 , p. 264
2. ↑ Décret qui Declare d'utilié publique l'établissement de deux Chemins de fer d'interêt local dans le département de Meurthe-et-Moselle . In: Bulletin des lois de la République française , Paris 1874, pages 282–301.
3. ^ ^{A b} Jean-Marc Dupuy: Gares et tortillards de Lorraine . Editions Cheminements 2009, ISBN 978-2360-37001-6