Souillac – Viescamp-sous-Jallès railway line
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Puybrun station degraded to a stop, February 2013
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Route number (SNCF) : | 719,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course book route (SNCF) : | 141, 142 (1958) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 79.2 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maximum slope : | 20 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minimum radius : | 150 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Souillac – Viescamp-sous-Jallès railway is a single-track , non-electrified railway line in central France . In a west-east direction, it connects the north-south-directed Les Aubrais-Orléans-Montauban-Ville-Bourbon railway with the Figeac – Arvant railway line, which runs from southwest to northeast . Today only the eastern section between Saint-Denis and Viescamp-sous-Jallès is in operation. The middle section leads through the valley of the Cère , which is still very pristine and impassable and requires a corresponding number of artificial structures. In addition, a large difference in altitude of up to 20 ‰ has to be overcome along the route . The Cère is also the border between the two regions of Occitania and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes . In addition, the route does not run north of the 45th parallel , so it belongs by definition to southern France .
history
The builder of the route was the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO), commissioned chief engineer Joseph Lanteirès, who also built the Cahors – Capdenac section of the Brive-la-Gaillarde – Toulouse-Matabiau line and the Montauban – Brive section of the Les railway line Aubrais-Orléans-Montauban-Ville-Bourbon planned and built. 32 tunnels of at least 68 meters and 8 viaducts of at least 35 meters had to be built (see table). The total length of all tunnels was more than 7.5 km, that of the at least 35 meter long viaducts almost 1000 meters.
Souillac – Saint-Denis-près-Martel section
meter | tunnel | Viaducts |
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until 50 | 2 | 3 |
until 100 | 6th | |
up to 150 | 7th | 3 |
up to 200 | 4th | |
up to 250 | 2 | 1 |
up to 300 | 3 | |
up to 350 | 1 | 1 |
up to 400 | 1 | |
up to 450 | 1 | |
up to 500 | 3 | |
up to 550 | 2 | |
total | 32 | 8th |
This railway line took over 20 years to be completed from the first application for a license to the opening. The oldest part of Souillac - Saint-Denis-près-Martel, which lies in the far west, was opened to traffic on June 16, 1889 and closed again on May 11, 1989, three weeks before its 100th anniversary.
The building permit for the project was available in 1880. The work was awarded in the summer of 1883. Almost exactly six years later, on June 16, 1889, rail operations began. In 1917 the rails were taken from the line as a donation of material for iron production, and one year later they were replaced by rails made in America. These should still be installed. The last passenger train ran on the western section on May 31, 1980. The route was officially closed to all traffic on May 28, 1989. In addition, since the construction of the Autoroute A 20, it has cut the former route in such a way that it is impossible to restore the line route. However, an agreement would oblige the motorway operator to restore the continuity of the route by building a bridge if the decision to reopen the route is taken.
While all track material was removed west of Cazoulès to Sarlat after the line was closed, the local association Chemin de fer touristique du Haut Quercy , which is fighting for the preservation of this railway line, managed to prevent the total evacuation. As a result, this association, founded at the beginning of 1992, established itself and has since 2006 been able to carry out tourist trips with historical vehicles on a nearly 5 km long Martel – Viaduc des Courtils section of the disused section between Souillac and St. Denis.
Saint-Denis-près-Martel – Viescamp-sous-Jallès section
The opening for this section took place on May 11, 1891, after the license application had been drawn up in the summer of 1868 and work had started in 1883.
The future of this route section with a noticeably low station density is also very uncertain. In autumn 2016, the newspaper Le Dauphiné libéré reported that there were plans to completely cease all traffic on this route from 2021. Politicians from all parties represented in the Hautes-Alpes regional parliament opposed this plan. In the 2020 timetable there are four pairs of trains, each commuting between Brive-la-Gaillarde and Aurillac .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ SNCF Region du sud-ouest. Carnet de Profils et Schémas , 1958
- ↑ Reinhard Douté: Les 400 profiles de lignes voyageurs du réseau ferré français. La Vie du Rail August 2011, ISBN 978-2-918758-44-0 , Volume 2, page 79
- ↑ Joseph Lanteirès on VIAF
- ↑ ARRETE N ° 2008-03-0172 on 19 March 2008 portant rétablissement et désenclavement de voies s uite à la construction de l'autoroute A20. In: Recueil des actes administratifs No. 4 of April 17, 2008, page 30
- ↑ Le train touristique en Haut-Quercy . In: La semaine du Lot du 8 au 14 février 2001. http://www.randonnees-lotoises.net
- ^ Lionel Arce-Menso: La ligne ferroviaire vers Grenoble menacée? on ledauphine.com, Le Dauphiné libéré , September 21, 2016
- ↑ Online departure table for Halt ferroviaire Laval-de-Cère . TER Occitanie
- ↑ Horaires Brive-la-Gaillarde – Aurillac du 15/12/2019 to 11/07/2020. (PDF) TER Occitanie, November 25, 2019, accessed on January 18, 2020 (French).