Villeneuve-Saint-Georges-Montargis railway line

Villeneuve-Saint-Georges-Montargis
The four-track Pont d'Athis-Mons over the Seine , looking towards Juvisy , 1987
Route number (SNCF) :	745,000
Course book route (SNCF) :	233, 234, 236
Route length:	109 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	1.5 kV (Villeneuve – Malesherbes)  =
Maximum slope :	10  ‰
Top speed:	100-135 km / h
Dual track :	yes (Villeneuve – Malherbes)
Legend Paris – Marseille railway line from Gare de Lyon 14.4 Villeneuve-Saint-Georges ~ 14.9 Yerres ~ 15.1 Val-de-Marne / Essonne department Railway Paris – Marseille to Marseille station 17.8 Vigneux-sur-Seine 18.9 Seine ( Pont d'Athis-Mons ; 184 m) Paris – Bordeaux railway from Gare d'Austerlitz 21.1 Juvisy Paris – Bordeaux line to Bordeaux-Saint-Jean 22.7 Orge 22.7 Viry-Châtillon 23.9 Grigny-Val-de-Seine 23.9 Abzw. Grigny ( railway Grigny-Orbeil-Essonnes ) 25.5 Ris orangis 27.6 Grand Bourg 29.5 Evry-Val-de-Seine 31.1 A 104 32.1 Grigny – Corbeil-Essonnes railway from Évry-Center 32.4 Corbeil-Essonnes Corbeil-Essonnes – Montereau railway line 33.4 RN 7 (11 m) 33.4 Essonne (11 m) 35.9 Moulin-Galant (55 m) 36.5 Railway line Corbeil-Essonnes – Montereau to Montereau 37.3 A 6 39.3 Vanne 40.1 Mennecy 42.8 Fontenay-le-Viscount 46.7 Ballancourt 52.5 La Ferté-Alais 59.1 Boutigny 64.3 Corn ~ 64.4 D 837 (formerly N 837 ) 67.0 Buno-Gironville 67.6 Essonne 70.3 Boigneville ~ 74.1 Essonne / Loiret department 76.6 Malesherbes ~ 77.2 D 2152 (formerly N 51 ) 77.3 Bourron-Marlotte-Grez-Malesherbes railway from / n. Bourron 79.2 Aubrais-Orléans – Malesherbes line to Aubrais-Orléans 82.1 La Brosse 84.9 Essonne 88.4 Puiseaux ~ 94.8 Loiret / Seine-et-Marne department 95.4 Beaumont-Boësses ~ 96.5 Fusain ~ 97, 0 Seine-et-Marne / Loiret department ~ 99.3 D 975 (formerly N 375 ) 101.9 Auxy Juranville Railway line Auxy-Juranville – Bourges to Bourges 102.3 A 19 107.5 Lorcy 114.1 Military connection "Camp de Mignères" 114.1 Mignères-Gondreville 117.1 A 77 121.1 Solin (16 m) 121.1 Canal du Loing (88 m) 123.7 116.9 Railway line Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons-Lyon-Perrache v. Lyon 116.9 Orléans – Montargis railway from Les Aubrais 117.7 Montargis 89 m Railway line Montargis – Sens to Sens Moret-Veneux-les-Sablons-Lyon-Perrache railway to Lyon

The Villeneuve-Saint-Georges-Montargis railway is a predominantly double-track railway line south of Paris in France . It provides an end to the 184-meter long Pont d'Athis-Mons on the Seine a connection between the two southward routes Paris-Marseille and Paris-Bordeaux is, on the other hand it is one of the routes leading to the unbundling of the railway lines of the metropolitan area Île-de-France contribute. It is located in the three departments of Val-de-Marne , Essonne and Loiret and runs through the Seine-et-Marne department for two kilometers . About half of the route - the northern part - is still served today.

history

Section Juvisy to Corbeil

As early as 1838 there were efforts to move a branch in Juvisy away from the railway line to Orléans to the south. The initiator of such a permit was Casimir Leconte, administrator of the royal couriers. Since the railroad did not enjoy a high reputation in its early years, he wanted to run a transport company without government support and only with the income from his securities trading. In François Bartholoni (1796–1881), who came from Geneva , he found a partner who was convinced of the railroad as a means of mass transport, had already qualified through his work in the transport industry and was also financially independent.

Her newly founded Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans initially planned the route to Juvisy. Together with the Paris-Austerlitz-Orléans line on the left bank of the Seine , which later became part of the Paris-Marseille line , the branch line in the Essonn Valley from Juvisy to Corbeil was also approved by the state at their request. The many mills along the Essonne with expected transport volumes aroused the interest of the railway workers. The line to Corbeil from Paris was opened on September 17, 1840, the Juvisy – Orléans section followed on May 5, 1843.

Takeover by the PLM

Maisse station at the beginning of the 20th century

The three railway companies, Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (PO), Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon (PLM) and Compagnie du chemin de fer Grand-Central de France ( PLM) agreed with the so-called “Syndicat du Bourbonnais”. GC) the division of concessions together with the state. The border station was the Juvisy wedge station , where the PO and PLM lines collided. Accordingly, this line was sold to PLM and the line from Juvisy to the Paris – Orléans line was reorganized.

A transition from the Seine to the GC operating there was therefore only logical. This connection was established with the Athis-Mons Bridge made of sandstone arches, which opened on May 18, 1863 . The peculiarity of this bridge was that it was built at an angle of 70 ° to the river. It was destroyed in the Franco-Prussian War by the withdrawing French troops to prevent the capture of Paris, but was rebuilt the following year and converted into a steel half-timbered construction in 1903.

The extension to Maisse took place until January 5, 1865 and until the end of May 1867 to Montargis . The double track expansion planned from the beginning took place in April 1882 to Maisse and in summer 1883 to Montargis.

Furnishing

Safety devices

The now advanced to the French standard block automatique lumineux (BAL) - signaling at the speed control contrôle de vitesse par balises is also running application.

The almost 7 km long first section to Jusivy has been expanded to four lanes and no longer has any level crossings. The following 11 km are then double-tracked and crossed by two level crossings, while the rest of the route has several level crossings. From Malherbes there is no more rail traffic, but the tracks are still available.

electrification

Logistically, the route is part of the Paris suburban network Réseau express régional d'Île-de-France and is operated with 1.5 kV direct current. The electrification took place according to the following table from 1950 to 1992.

Electrification on the line

section	introduction	Length [km]
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges à Corbeil-Essonnes	August 10, 1950	18.21
Corbeil-Essonnes à La Ferté-Alais	January 13, 1984	20.15
La-Ferté-Alais à Malesherbes	September 24, 1992	44.27
Malesherbes – Abzw. Montargis	-no -
Junction Montargis – Montargis	March 8, 1988	0.77

service

When the route was taken over by the SNCF in 1938, the northern section Corbeil – Paris was served six times a day. The journey took about an hour. In 1961, after the introduction of electric locomotives, the travel time was reduced to 33 minutes, continuous trains without intermediate stops took 22 minutes. The rest of the journey takes 55 to 60 minutes for the destination Corbeil – Malesherbes and 52 to 63 minutes for Malesherbes – Montargis. Since the abolition of passenger transport with the introduction of the winter timetable on September 26, 1971, buses have been running between Malesherbes and Montargis, but they only make up about a third of the previous train service - apart from school amplifiers.

Trains in service today operate within the RER network with the line designation RER D and the brand name Transilien . Occasional freight traffic takes place between Villeneuve and Malesherbes between Auxy-Juranville and Montargis.

Web links

Commons : Villeneuve-Saint-Georges-Montargis railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Armand Audiganne: Les Chemins de fer en Europe et en Amérique. Part II , in: Revue des deux Mondes. Volume 25, Paris 1855, pages 850–851
2. ^ François and Maguy Palau: Juvisy-Orléans , in: Le Rail en France : Les 80 premières lignes 1828-1851 , Palau, Paris 2003 ISBN 978-2-9509-4210-4 , pages 97-98
3. ↑ Bertrand Gille: Histoire de la maison Rothschild , Volume 1, in: Travaux de droit, d'économie, de sociologie et de sciences politiques , ISSN 0082-6022, Librairie Droz 1965, page 308