Tours – Le Mans railway line

Tours – Le Mans
Ecommoy station with former freight tracks, 2009
Route number (SNCF) :	561,000
Course book range :	24 3
Route length:	96 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	5  ‰
Top speed:	140 km / h
Dual track :	Yes
Legend Vierzon – Saint-Pierre-des-Corps railway from Vierzon Paris – Bordeaux line from Paris-Austerlitz 235.7 Tours 48 m Cher Railway Paris – Bordeaux to Bordeaux Railway line Joué-lès-Tours – Châteauroux n. Châteauroux u. Railway line Les Sables-d'Olonne – Tours to Sables-d'Olonne ~ 237.8 Avenue de Grammont (formerly N 10 ) Tours – Saint-Nazaire to Saint-Nazaire railway line 241.9 Loire ( Viaduc de Saint-Côme ; 437 m) 242.5 Choisille (11 m) 242.7 Fondettes-Saint-Cyr 55 m 244.7 Choisille (9 m) 246.8 La Membrolle-sur-Choisille 65 m ~ 246.9 D 938 (formerly N 158 ) 246.9 Railway line Brétigny – La Membrolle-sur-Choisille n. Brétigny 248.1 Choisille (7 m) 248.6 Mettray 73 m 255.8 Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher 108 m ~ 262.6 D 766 (formerly BÜ N 766 ) Châteaurenault CFD 263.4 Neuillé-Pont-Pierre 104 m CFD according to Rillé-Hommes 272.0 Saint-Paterne 67 m 278.8 Dissay-sous-Courcillon 57 m 281.2 Département Sarthe / Indre-et-Loire and former border jurisdiction Région Sud-Ouest / Ouest 282.5 Loir (65 m) 283.1 Chartres – Bordeaux line to Chartres 283.9 Château-du-Loir 51 m Chartres – Bordeaux line to Bordeaux ~ 291.3 D 305 (formerly N 817 ) 291.7 Vaas 49 m 295.2 Aubigné-Racan – Sablé railway from Sablé 295.9 Aubigné-Racan 54 m 304.9 Mayet Tramways de la Sarthe (TS) to Le Mans 74 m 309.2 Aune 312.3 Écommoy 78 m 319.3 Laigné-Saint-Gervais 57 m 325.8 Arnage 46 m Triage du mans 329.0 Above Fontaines Triage du mans 331.4 Abw. Parc 332.2 Huisne (60m) Paris – Brest railway line from / to Paris-Montparnasse 333.7 211.0 Le Mans 52 m 211.6 Sarthe (60 m) Railway Paris – Brest to Brest 214.2 Le Mans – Angers-Maître-École n. Angers-St-Laud railway line Le Mans – Mézidon to Mézidon railway line

Chateau-du-Loir junction station, 1900s. Looking towards Tours to the east.

The Tours – Le Mans railway line is a double-track , standard-gauge railway line in north-western France . It connects the capital of the Indre-et-Loire Tours department with the roughly equal city of Le Mans , capital of the Sarthe department . The line went into operation in 1858 and, with the exception of the section from the junction to the Le Mans-Triage marshalling yard to the end of the line in Le Mans, is still not electrified .

history

Two-track expansion

date	section
1867	Tours – Mettray
April 3, 1916	Arnage-Le Mans
1918	Château-du-Loir-Aubigné
1919	Dissay-sous-Courcillon-Château-du-Loir
1923	Mettray-Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher
November 1939	Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher-Dissay-sous-Courcillon
November 1939	Aubigné – Arnage

The line was licensed for the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO) on August 17, 1853 and opened on July 19, 1858 as a single track. The terrain was easy to provide with a route because it was flat and only had a few artificial structures. In 1867 the second track was put into operation on the first 13 km. During the First World War, further sections followed, partly with the help of material from American troops from "dismantled" other routes. It was not until November 1939 that the line was fully accessible on two tracks. The kilometrage continues from Paris-Austerlitz station .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pl. N ° 24 ³ Le Mans – Tours . In: Région de l'ouest , page 46.
2. ↑ Décret Impérial of August 17, 1853 in: Bulletin des lois de la République française . Paris 1853, pages 412-413.
3. ↑ Gustav Stürmer : Table of the history of the French railways . In: History of the Railways , Volume 1, ES Mittler & Sohn 1872, page 141
4. ^ Ligne Tours - Le Mans , on Infrastructure ferroviaire française .