Soissons – Givet railway line

Soissons – Givet
Soissons station, house platform 1907.
Route number (SNCF) :	205,000
Course book route (SNCF) :	2 of the region of Est
Route length:	209.2 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	10  ‰
Dual track :	Yes
Legend La Plaine – Hirson railway from Paris-Nord 104 Rochy-Condé – Soissons railway from Beauvais 104.3 0.0 Soissons 55 m La Plaine – Hirson to Hirson railway line ~ 1.2 N 2 4.4 Venizel 46 m 10 Ciry-Salsogne-Sermoise 54 m 10.65 End of the route 16.8 Braine 55 m 16.95 End of the route 17.2 N 31 21.1 Vesle (22 m) 23.1 Trilport – Bazoches railway from Paris-Est 23.2 Bazoches 59 m 26.8 Vesle (40 m) 27.4 Ainse / Marne border 27.8 N 31 28.1 Fismes 62 m 34.3 Magneux-Courlandon 68 m 31.9 Breuil-Romain 71 m 38.7 Jonchery-sur-Vesle 71 m 44.3 Muizon 72 m 46.4 Muizon 49.6 A 26 50.7 Vesle (31 m) 51.7 Saint-Brice-Courcelles 76 m 54 Canal de l'Aisne (34 m) Épernay – Reims railway from Epernay 54.8 Reims 83 m 56.6 Railway Reims – Laon to Laon Châlons-en-Champagne – Reims railway from / n. Châlons-en-Champagne 62.8 Witry-lès-Reims 117 m 65.2 Lavanne Caure 100 m 71.7 Bazancourt 77 m 72 Suippe Railway line Bazancourt – Challerange from / n. Challerange ~ 75 Marne / Ardennes border ~ 76 A 34 82 Le Châtelet 90 m 84.5 Tagnon 96 m 89.4 Tunnel de Perthes (628 m) 93.8 Canal des Ardennes (20 m) 94 Aisne (84 m) 94 Rethel 77 m Hirson – Amagne-Lucquy railway line from Hirson 102 Amagne-Lucquy 82 m 102.2 Amagne-Lucquy – Revigny line to Revigny 110.2 Saulces-Monclin 153 m 112.8 A 34 116.6 Watershed 118.6 Launois 207 m 125.6 A 34 125.7 Vence (28 m) 126.2 Poix-Terron 179 m 129.0 A 34 128.6 Vence (2 ×) (18 m) 130.0 Guignicourt-sur-Vence 167 m 132.5 A 34 133.4 Boulzicourt 163 m 136.4 A 34 137.1 Francheville 155 m 137.6 A 34 (2 ×) 139.7 +140.5 Railway Mohon – Thionville from / n. Thionville 140.6 Vence (29 m) 140.6 Mohon 150 m 141.9 Theux (75 m) 141.9 Former tunnel de Mézières (open) (141 m) 141.9 Meuse (74 m) 142 Charleville-Mézières – Hirson railway line from / n. Hirson 142.5 Charleville-Mezieres 149 m 143.3 Meuse (72 m) 146.3 Aiglemont 145 m 149.8 Nouzonville 143 m 153.6 Joigny-sur-Meuse 148 m 158 Bogny-sur-Meuse 145 m 159.3 Tunnel de Château-Régault (518 m) 159.8 Monthermé-Château-Regnault-Bogny – Phade to Phade railway line 159.9 Monthermé 148 m 160.1 Meuse (123 m) 160.2 Tunnel de Monthermé (801 m) 163.5 Deville 137 m 167.8 Laifour 145 m 168.1 Meuse (154 m) 168.3 Laifour Tunnel (500 m) 170.8 Meuse (178 m) 171.6 Anchamps 141 m 174.5 Tunnel de Revin (396 m) 175.4 Revin 134 m 175.6 Meuse (150 m) 181.8 Meuse (173 m) 182.9 Fumay 128 m 183.3 Tunnel de Fumay or de Divers-Monts (558 m) 186.3 Haybes 115 m 189.0 Fépin 119 m 191.9 Montigny-sur-Meuse 114 m 195.8 Vireux-Molhain 113 m 196.4 Viroin (19 m) Chemin de Fer à Vapeur des trois Vallées in Mariembourg 199.8 Aubrives 117 m 203.0 Chooz 114 m 205.1 Charlemont Tunnel (510 m) 206.1 Givet 103 m Givet – Morialmé railway to Florennes 209.172 47.20 Border crossing point to Belgium to the Athus Maas line to Dinant

The Soissons – Givet railway is a French standard-gauge railway that connected the two towns of Soissons and Givet . Of the more than 200 kilometers in between, 17 are no longer served today and some have even been dismantled. It represents an important link within the Ardennes . The infrastructure is now managed by the state-owned SNCF Réseau , which took it over on January 1, 2015 from the rail infrastructure company Réseau ferré de France (RFF).

Route description

This railway line branches in Soissons from the railway line La Plaine Hirson , the Paris Nord to Laon and Hirson connects from and, after 23 km in Bazoches on the railway line Trilport-Bazoches , whose traffic it does today because this part of the track is now closed. After 55 km you will reach Reims, the capital of the department . From here the route no longer runs in an east-south-east, but in a north-easterly direction. At kilometer 142 it reaches the Charleville-Mézières train station and then leads in many meanders following the river Maas to Givet on the Belgian border, which from there with a now disused connection to Dinant in Belgium as the Athus-Maas line to Namur and Brussels continues. The Franco-Belgian connection was shut down in the 1980s. The entire line, which is still used today, is double-track, the section between Reims and Charleville is electrified with an AC voltage of 25 kV, 50 Hz.

history

On July 19, 1853, the minister for public works granted the route a 99-year license. The concessionaire was the Compagnie des chemins de fer des Ardennes - also known as the Compagnie des Ardennes , which wanted to build and operate several lines in the Ardennes region. Just a few years later, the company was bought by the Chemin de fer de l'Est , which continued to operate the routes.

The following sections of the route were opened, closed or de-dedicated on these days (P = passenger traffic, G = freight traffic):

route	km from	km to	opening	Closure P	Closure G	Desedication
Soissons – Reims	0	54.8	04/16/1862
Soissons – Bazoches	0	23.2		05/05/1938
Sidings Ciry-Sermoise	10.7	11.5				10/17/2001
Ciry-Sermoise-Braine	11.5	15.8				10/17/2001
Sidings Braine	15.8	16.9				09/20/1995
Reims-Rethel	54.8	94	06/10/1858
Rethel – Charleville-Mézières	94	142.5	09/15/1858
Charleville-Mézières-Nouzonville	142.5	149.8	09/14/1859
Nouzonville-Givet	149.8	206.1	04/28/1862
Givet limit	206.1	209.2	02/05/1863	06/02/1988	06/01/1989

In the course of the electrification of the Mohon – Thionville railway on July 2, 1954, the two-kilometer section Mohon – Charleville-Mézières was also electrified; the section from Reims to Mohon was not electrified until ten years later on December 8, 1964.

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, 8-F-886, 1857