Sablé – Montoir-de-Bretagne railway line
The Sablé – Montoir-de-Bretagne railway is a 188 km long French railway line, which today (2017) is largely closed and dismantled; at times it was two-pronged. It linked Sablé-sur-Sarthe at Le Mans with Montoir-de-Bretagne at Saint-Nazaire . Initially intended for the development of the area around Segré and Châteaubriant , it gained importance as the shortest connection between Paris and Saint-Nazaire. In 2017 there will only be freight traffic between Sablé and Château-Gontier .
It bears route number 460 000 at SNCF Réseau .
history
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The Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest already operated the Paris – Brest railway line , from which a branch line to Angers via Sablé departed at Le Mans . On July 4, 1868, she received the concession for the line from Sablé-sur-Sarthe to Châteaubriant , which lies in the angle between these two lines. The company went to work in sections. From Sablé to Château-Gontier , operations began on December 25, 1876, on to Segré on October 1, 1877 and from there to Châteaubriant on December 23, 1877. Iron ore and slate were mined in Segré and the surrounding area, and ore at Châteaubriant and beyond south of coal, which could be better marketed by rail. A total of 96 km were in operation.
The area of Châteaubriant still lacked a connection to the west. The Redon railway junction was chosen as the destination , from where a connection in the direction of Vannes , Lorient and Brest (Finistère) was possible via the Savenay – Landerneau railway line . The concession for a railway line from Châteaubriant via Saint-Vincent-des-Landes to Massérac , a station northwest of Redon on the Rennes – Redon railway line , was granted in 1875 and the connection was put into operation in April 1881.
Than the middle portion and the railway Saint-Vincent-des-Landes-Massérac were still under construction, another connection from Saint-Vincent to was 1879 Montoir-de-Bretagne with destination Saint-Nazaire decided and 1883, the concession to the Ouest granted . The trains were able to run here as early as May 18, 1885. The Tours – Saint-Nazaire railway line , built by the PO , was expanded to double-track from Montoir and operated jointly by the Ouest and the PO .
The route now represented a significantly shorter connection between Paris and Saint-Nazaire than the older PO route via Nantes and Tours . It was planned from the beginning for two tracks, but initially only built as a single track. Due to the increasing demand, a second track made sense, which was fully in operation from June 22, 1913.
From around 1950 the situation worsened. By 1955, the Nantes city passage on the Tours – Saint-Nazaire railway line was expanded, thereby removing an operational obstacle. With the nationalization of the railways and the founding of the SNCF from 1938, there was no longer any competition between Ouest and PO. The weak regional demand was mainly directed towards Rennes and Nantes, between which the line runs roughly in the middle. Passenger traffic was discontinued on March 19, 1952 between Châteaubriant and Montoir-de-Bretagne, and from March 3, 1969, the eastern half was also only served by freight traffic. As early as 1958, the line was again entered as a single track on a route map.
On May 28, 1988, the 22 km long section between Bouvron and Besné was closed; the bridge there was in the way of electrifying the Savenay – Landerneau railway line . Other sections followed. Large parts of the route were dismantled by the beginning of the 2010s.
business
A transshipment center was set up in Château-Gontier on October 4, 2013 and is served from Sablé. Mainly dairy products are loaded. There is still an industrial connection in Longuefuye , which was operated irregularly in 2010.
In the 2017 SNCF route map, the route between Château-Gontier and Châteaubriant and just west of Châteaubriant to Besné has completely disappeared. A section in Châteaubriant is still held as a siding. The connecting curve from Pontchâteau to Besné and the rest of the route from there to Montoir are shown on the map as "route without service", but have already been interrupted several times.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d "Il était une fois ... une voie (historique de Château-Gontier ...)", 1ere partie , article de la FNAULT Pays de la Loire du 2 février 2010, consulté le 14 December 2010.
- ↑ N ° 16168 - Décret impérial qui approuve la convention passée, le 4 juillet 1868, entre le ministre de l'Agriculture, du Commerce et des Travaux publics, et la Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest - 4 juillet 1868; Bulletin des lois de l'Empire Français XI, 32, 1610 (1868), pp. 80-84, Imprimerie Impériale, Paris
- ↑ N ° 4907 - Loi qui déclare d'utilité publique l'établissement de plusieurs chemins de fer et ... Bulletin des lois de la République Française XII, 11, 286 (1857), Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, pp. 1310-1315
- ↑ N ° 8169 - Loi qui déclare d'utilité publique l'établissement d'un chemin de fer de Saint-Nazaire à Châteaubriant Bulletin des lois de la République Française, XII, 19, 456 (1879), Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, p 12 f
- ↑ Loi qui approuve la convention passée, le 17 july 1883, entre le ministre des Travaux publics, et la Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest , Bulletin des lois de la République Française XII, 28, 834 (1884), Imprimerie Nationale , Paris, pp. 359-367
- ↑ a b "Il était une fois… une voie (aspects techniques de Château-Gontier ...), 2nd partie" , article from the FNAULT Pays de la Loire du 4 février 2010, consulté le 15 December 2010.
- ↑ Décret du 20 septembre 1991 portant retranchement et déclassement de sections de lignes dépendant du réseau ferré national ... , Journal officiel de la République Française, 224, pp. 12514-12515
- ^ "Château-Gontier / Segré en péril" , press release by the FNAULT passenger association of January 29, 2010
- ↑ "Château-Gontier inaugure sa plateforme de transport combined" , article on the site officiel de Réseau ferré de France on October 31, 2013, consulté on November 23, 2013.
- ↑ Page des actualités du groupe Breger ( Memento of December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), consultée le 23 November 2013.
- ↑ 2017 SNCF network map , accessed on April 15, 2017