Oiry-Mareuil – Romilly-sur-Seine railway line

Oiry-Mareuil-Romilly-sur-Seine
Romilly-sur-Seine train station, 2009
Route number (SNCF) :	010 000
Route length:	83.9 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	10  ‰
Dual track :	formerly partly yes
Legend Paris – Strasbourg railway from Paris-Est 0.0 Oiry 74 m 0.7 Railway line Paris – Strasbourg to Strasbourg Adjacent track Oiry 6.6 Avize 114 m 9.7 Mesnil ogre 119 m 15.8 Vertus 107 m 18.2 Bergères-lès-Vertus-Mont-Aimé 121 m Coligny 27 Morains-Aulnay 146 m 32.4 Railway line Fère-Champenoise – Vitry-le-François from Vitry-le-Fr. 33.5 Fère-Champenoise 141 m 39.1 Connantre 103 m 44.3 Linthes-Linthelles 107 m 53.8 Sézanne 121 m Railway line Gretz-Armainvilliers-Sézanne to Paris-Est 61.3 Barbonne-Fayel 102 m 66.9 Saint-Quentin-le-Verger 85 m 72.7 Anglurs 75 m Aube (destroyed) Canal de la Haute-Seine (destroyed) 77.4 Saint-Just-Sauvage 76 m ~ 79.9 Marne / Aube ~ 80.1 His (destroyed) Paris – Mulhouse railway from Mulhouse 83.9 Romilly-sur-Seine 77 m Mézy – Romilly-sur-Seine railway from Mézy Paris – Mulhouse line to Paris-Est

The Oiry-Mareuil – Romilly-sur-Seine railway is an 84 km long, formerly partially single-track railway line in France . It was opened in four stages until 1872. A 30 km long section was shut down in 1940 and finally closed in 1951. There is no longer any passenger traffic on the rest of the route either.

history

Sézanne , the largest on-the-go station, around 1900

On April 28, 1868, the Société belge des Chemins de fer , a subcontractor of the Société générale de Belgique, was granted the concession to build and operate a link that spans the two existing routes from Paris-East to Strasbourg and from Paris-East to Mulhouse should connect. The Société belge des Chemins de fer had a strong urge to expand towards the south and competed with other companies active here such as the Chemin de fer de l'Est in particular , to which this route was then transferred a few years later, on February 1, 1872 that they could operate more economically. The station buildings from the time the line was built correspond to the architecture of Belgian stations. Only the northern section to Sézanne was expanded to two tracks.

The route was built from north to south. The first 18 km could be completed on August 12, 1870, four weeks after the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War . Accordingly, the construction project stalled in the course of the war and only picked up speed after the end of the fighting. By August 20, 1871, you came to Fère-Champenoise , three months later to Sézanne and on May 11, 1872 the line to Romilly-sur-Seine was completed.

It was not until ten years later, on November 5, 1885, that the Gretz-Armainvilliers-Sézanne line came from the west on this line, which was continued in Fère-Champenoise at the same time as the Fère-Champenoise-Vitry-le-François line.

In both the First and Second World Wars, this part of France belonged to the deployment area and was accordingly of great military importance. The routes were expanded and, by April 1917, some extensive railway systems were added in order to be able to provide transports of military equipment and troops. In addition to 13 marshals , there was a generously dimensioned parking area for locomotives with a repair hall and a reversing triangle . In Sézanne there was also a health service and prison camp. After the Second World War, all war-relevant facilities were dismantled.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean-Baptiste Duvergier: Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, réglements, et avis du Conseil d'Etat. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département Droit, économie, politique, Paris 1868, page 442
2. ↑ Track plan of the Fère-Champenoise – Sézanne section from 1934 on e-train.fr
3. ↑ Track plan of the Fère-Champenoise – Sézanne section from 1962 on e-train.fr