Nançois-Tronville – Neufchâteau railway line
The Nançois-Tronville – Neufchâteau railway is a former standard- gauge railway in the Ornain valley in the Grand Est in France . The non-electrified, formerly double-track line was reduced to one track during the German occupation in World War II . Today it bears the national route number 27,000 and only half of it exists.
history
After the earliest line openings in this region in the first half of the 1850s, there was a first connection to Neufchâteau , from the early 1860s. It was not until ten years later that this north-leading route in the direction of Bar-le-Duc was established, which was to represent the shortest and fastest connection to the country's capital, Paris .
The initiative for this came from the Brussels banker and member of the Grand Council of the Departmental Government, Jules Delloye-Tiberghien (1813-1897), who submitted an application to the state government on December 10, 1869, which was approved six months later on the grounds that the route is “publicly useful”. Delloye was already involved in other railway lines in Flanders and Prussia. The operating company was Chemin de fer de l'Est , which expanded rapidly during these years and already owned a number of routes around it. The outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War delayed completion until mid-November 1875. At the end of the 1880s, the line planned accordingly was expanded to two tracks.
Route description
Where in the north the line leaves the Paris – Strasbourg main line , it has only one direct rail connection to the west (Paris). While the line towards Strasbourg leaves the Ornain valley at Naix-aux-Forges , the railway line to Neufchâteau winds against its direction of flow on its left-hand side, rising steadily through the narrowing valley. From Demange-aux-Eaux at km 25.8 the terrain becomes flatter. The highest point of the route is reached in the Tunnel de Midrevaux . While the landscape up to Gondrecourt-le-Château was more of an agricultural area, to the south of it extensive wooded areas spread out to the right and left of the route. The only tunnel is not only a corner point of the route that has been running south to this point in terms of the route height. The last almost twenty kilometers run from there in a more south-easterly direction.
use
The entire line was closed to passenger traffic on March 3, 1969. Freight traffic was shut down in four steps: De Grand-Avranville to Sionne-Midrevaux also on March 3, 1969, Dainville-Meuse to Grand-Avranville and from Sionne-Midrevaux to Neufchâteau on July 5, 1971, Gondrecourt-le-Château to Dainville on December 16, 1973 and the remaining, not yet declassified section of the route in November 2014. Today there are still occasional seasonal trips with grain transports. The route will possibly be used for later nuclear waste transports because there are possible repositories for radioactive waste in the region .
Individual evidence
- ^ Julien van den Broeck: Financieel-institutionalele analyze van de Belgische beursgenoteerde spoorwegsector 1836-1957. Garant Uitgevers, 2004, ISBN 978-9044116229 , p. 163 (Dutch)
- ↑ Route network from December 1898 , BnF Gallica: Carte du réseau des Chemins de fer de l'Est.
- ↑ N ° 2133 - Décret qui déclare d'utilité publique l'établissement, dans le département de la Meuse, d'un chemin de fer d'intérêt local de Nançois-le-Petit à Gondrecourt: 12 June 1870 , Legal Gazette of the Republic of France , Paris, Staatsdruckerei, Series XII, Volume 6, No. 140, 1873, pp. 827–847 (French)
