Rivage – Trois Ponts railway line
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| Route number : | L 42 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book section (DB) : | L 43 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 60.2 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Rivage – Trois Ponts line ( Spoorlijn 42 ) is an electrified line between Rivage in Belgium and Trois Ponts . It is part of the International Association Liege-Luxembourg and is now only the passenger train companies SNCB and CFL busy. The joint product of these two railways is the cross-border InterCity Line 33, which runs every two hours and was referred to as InterRegio Line m until the timetable change in December 2014 .
Route description
The starting point of the route is Rivage station on the (Liège–) Angleur – Marloie railway line. The route crosses the scenic Ardennes and, at the Coo stop, passes the famous Coo waterfalls , which are the highest in Belgium with a height of 15 meters .
Buildings
bridges
- Remouchamps Viaduct (138 m)
- Aywaille Viaduct
- Coo Viaduct (186 m)
- Targnon Viaduct (44 m)
- Vennes Viaduct (187 m long)
tunnel
- Liotte tunnel (double track): 82 meters
- Remouchamps tunnel: 618 meters
- Targnon tunnel: 279 meters
- Xhierfomont tunnel: 127 meters
- Cheneux Tunnel: 250 meters
- La Gleize tunnel: 59 meters
- Roanne-Coo tunnel: 194 meters
- Coo tunnel: 305 meters
- Trois-Ponts tunnel (double-track): 345 meters
Operation and history
The line was opened on July 1, 1890 by the Belgian State Railways .
The line was completely modernized in the 1990s. The work, which included the electrification of the entire route, the renewal of road crossings and signaling technology, was completed in spring 2000. For this purpose, the route in the Aywaille – Trois-Ponts section was reduced to one track in order to be able to achieve higher speeds on this section, which is rich in tunnels, by straightening the route.
The line was equipped with the CFL power system (25 kV alternating current). The limit to the 3 kV direct current network of the SNCB is in Martinrive, near Rivage.
Local traffic does not take place on the route. The entire route is only used by long-distance trains on InterCity line 33 (Liers – Liège – Luxembourg) every two hours. The offer in the Gouvy-Liège section is partially increased every hour. In addition, there are two intercity trains on line O from Gouvy to Brussels and vice versa. The CFL series 3000 with three to four conventional express train carriages are used.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brochures IC ( Memento of December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on b-rail.be , accessed on December 8, 2015