Mouchard – Bourg-en-Bresse railway line

Mouchard – Bourg-en-Bresse
Domblans-Voiteur station, August 2019
Route number (SNCF) :	880,000
Route length:	113 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	1969: St-Amour-Bourg-en-Bresse 1.5 kV  =
Power system :	2004: Mouchard – St-Amour 25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	15  ‰
Dual track :	partly yes
Legend Dijon – Vallorbe railway line from Dijon 392.3 Mouchard (wedge station) 287 m ~ 392.4 D 472 (formerly N 72 ) and N 83 Railway Mouchard – Salins-les-Bains to Salins-les-Bains Railway line Dijon – Vallorbe to Vallorbe (Switzerland) 400.9 Cuisance (20 m) 401.1 Arbois 268 m ~ 402.9 D 469 (formerly N 5 ) 407.8 Grozon 280 m Dole-Ville – Poligny railway from Dole-Ville 413.1 Poligny 294 m ~ 416.7 N 83 ~ 416.8 N 83 414.2 Orain (6 m) 419.2 Saint-Lothain 291 m 423.6 Passenans 270 m 424.9 Tunnel de Saint-Lamain (320 m) 428.0 Seille (27 m) 428.5 Domblans Voiteur 254 m 434.5 Montain-Lavigny 310 m 440.2 Vallière (10 m) ~ 438.5 D 678 (formerly N 78 ) and N 83 Champagnole – Lons-le-Saunier railway from Champagnole ~ 441.5 to the St-Maur junction ( Chemins de fer vicinaux du Jura CFV) 441.7 Lons-le-Saunier 267 m ~ 442.1 after Pierre (Saône-et-Loire) a. Saint Julien (CFV) 441.9 Railway line Chaugey – Lons-le-Saunier to Chaugey and railway line St-Germain-du-Plain – Lons-le-Saunier to St-Germain 447.5 Gevingey 262 m 452.2 Sainte-Agnes 231 m ~ 454.0 D 1083 (formerly N 83) 457.0 Beaufort 228 m 463.258 Cousance 230 m 465.4 Border of the Jura / Saône-et-Loire department ~ 466.7 Cuiseaux TA from St. Trivier-de-Courtes to Cuiseaux-Ville 466.8 Cuiseaux 246 m 470.9 Power system separation 25 kV - 50 Hz ~ / 1.5 kV direct voltage 472.6 Border of the Saône-et-Loire / Jura department 473.8 Dijon-Ville – Saint-Amour railway from Dijon-Ville 475.5 Factory connection 475.9 Saint-Amour 222 m 479.6 Border of the Jura / Ain department 481.3 Coligny (Ain) 217 m 488.2 Solnan (18 m) 488.2 Le Moulin-des-Ponts (Bourg-en-Bresse – Montrevel – Mâcon, TA ) 488.3 Le Moulin-des-Ponts 493.4 Saint-Etienne-du-Bois 236 m 498.5 A 40 (63 m) ~ 503.9 Reyssouze (~ 15 m) ~ 504.0 D 1079 (formerly N 75 and N 79 ) Mâcon – Ambérieu railway line from Mâcon Connecting track of the Bourg-en-Bresse industrial area and the Chalon-sur-Saône – Bourg-en-Bresse railway from Chalon ~ 505.3 Bourg-en-Bresse Tramways de l'Ain from Villefranche and Mâcon and D 936 (formerly N 436 ) 505.5 Bourg-en-Bresse 241 m Railway line Bourg-en-Bresse – Bellegarde to Bellegarde Railway line Lyon-Saint-Clair – Bourg-en-Bresse to Lyon-St-Clair Railway line Mâcon – Ambérieu to Ambérieu

The Mouchard – Bourg-en-Bresse railway is a standard-gauge railway in France . It is part of the destination Mulhouse - Besançon - Lyon and runs roughly in a south-south-west orientation. The entire 113 km long route consists of two sections with different technical features. The northern part is topographically demanding with many alternating inclines and declines as well as very winding. Mainly passenger trains run here, while in the southern part there are also many freight trains running from Dijon into the Rhône Valley . The line is electrified with two different voltages and only has double tracks in the southern, almost 35 km long section Saint-Amour - Bourg-en-Bresse , but was originally designed to be double-tracked over its entire length.

history

Bourg-en-Bresse train station, around 1900

Track systems at Mouchard station, August 2018

The Mouchard – Bourg-en-Bresse railway line was planned, applied for and approved together with the line to Besançon. The applicant on April 20, 1854 was the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM). This project came at a time of great upheavals and mergers between French railway companies, which was concluded with the agreement of April 11, 1857.

On August 1st, 1864, the line between Bourg-en-Bresse and Lons-le-Saunier was put into operation by PLM. Between 1973 and 1995, RTG trains ran on this route , which corresponded to the wishes of travelers to move faster than with locomotive teams. They represent the transition to electrification, which was introduced in the southern section from 1969 and in the northern section from 1995. Since December 2004, the entire length of the route has been used for TGV trains between Strasbourg and Marseille .

Local railways

Along the route there were a number of meter gauge - branch lines , especially in Lons-le-Saunier , Cuiseaux and Bourg-en-Bresse . Since 1879, several mutually competing companies came into being, which merged between 1919 and 1921 and henceforth operated under the name Départementale des Tramways de l'Ain .

Lons-le-Saunier was the starting point of several secondary railways of the Chemins de fer vicinaux du Jura (CFV) in north, south and east directions with a route network of over 200 km. The Saint-Maur junction, which was about 6.3 km from the railway overpass at Lons-le-Saunier station, divided the route to Arinthod in a southerly direction and to Saint-Claude and Mouthe to the east.

The 29 km long local railway Régie Départementale des Tramways de l'Ain (RDTA) , or Tramways de l'Ain for short , ran from 1934 to 1938 between the community of Cuiseaux, which has 1,300 inhabitants, and Saint-Trivier-de-Courtes in the Ain department with connection to Pont-de-Vaux .

In Bourg-en-Bresse a branch of the RDTA also operated to the southwest until the end of 1937, the 51 km long route to Villefranche-sur-Saône via Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne . A section of the RDTA was also in operation in the opposite direction. After a few kilometers this led north, then east, crossed the Mouchard – Bourg-en-Bresse railway at Le Moulin-des-Ponts , and finally led to Mâcon .

Web links

Commons : Mouchard – Bourg-en-Bresse railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SNCF Region du Sud-Est. Carnet de profils et schémas , 1959. Sheet 55/56
2. ↑ N ° 4797. Décret impérial qui approuve la convention passée, le 11 avril 1857, entre le ministre de l'Agriculture, du Commerce et des Travaux publics, et les Compagnies des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon, et de Lyon à la Méditerranée: 11 avril 1857 , Bulletin des lois de l'Empire Français, Paris, Imprimerie impériale, série XI, vol. 10, no 522, 1857, pages 275-327. In: Lois, décrets, conventions et cahiers des charges. Compagnie des chemins de fer du midi. Ve. Lanefranque et fils 1868, pp. 166-168
3. ↑ André Rasserie: L'Adieu aux RTG , the French gas turbine trains RTG (rame à turbine à gaz) ended after 30 years on 12 December 2004 their use on the tracks of the SNCF. Private blog page, 2004
4. ↑ Les Tramways de l'Ain on Rue du petit train
5. ^ Compagnie des chemins de fer Vicinaux (CFV). FACS - Patrimoine Ferroviaire
6. ↑ 39 Le Jura , map on Rue du petit train .
7. ^ Régie Départementale des Tramways de l'Ain (RDTA) . List of chemins de fer secondaires Ain (01) on FACS - Patrimoine Ferroviaire.
8. ↑ Quand le train passait in Saint-Denis (1898-1937). Saint-Denis-lès-Bourg d'hier à aujourd'hui.
9. ↑ 01 Ain , map on Rue du petit train .