Waldighoffen – Saint-Louis-la-Chaussée railway line
| Waldighoffen – Saint-Louis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number (SNCF) : | 135,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 22.57 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 25 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 300 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Waldighoffen – Saint-Louis railway was a French railway from Waldighoffen to Saint-Louis . It opened on March 17, 1915 and is now completely shut down.
Route
The railway line leaves the wedge station Waldighoffen in an easterly direction. The Steinsoultz stop was reached after just under 1.2 km . From there on, the railway line continued via the Muespach and Muespach-le-Haut - Folgensbourg stations to Michelbach-le-Haut - Attenschwiller . From there it led north to Blotzheim via Michelbach-le-Bas . Shortly after Blotzheim, after the railway line had reoriented to the east, the runway of Basel-Mulhouse airport was crossed under . The line met the Strasbourg – Basel line at km 20 . The terminus of the line was Saint-Louis .
history
The first plans to build a railway line from Saint-Louis to Waldighoffen date back to 1895. The decision of the Reichseisenbahnen in Alsace-Lorraine to build this railway line was made in 1908; construction work begins in 1912/13. The first trains started running as early as 1914, when the First World War broke out , the sparse traffic had to be stopped again. On March 17, 1915, the line was opened for freight traffic. After the First World War, the route was not passable and had to be repaired. Passenger traffic could begin on March 1, 1920. On May 2, 1922, Alsace-Lorraine (AL) took over the route.
The last passenger train ran on the route on March 28, 1955. Freight traffic on the Waldighoffen – Blotzheim section ended on June 13, 1957; this section of the route was closed on May 24, 1960. Freight trains operated on the section from Blotzheim to Saint-Louis until September 27, 1992.
Web links
- Map of the route with the mileage
- Illustration from the German course book with the annual timetable 1944/45
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saint-Louis - Blotzheim - Waldighoffen on forum.e-train.fr
- ↑ Ancienne ligne de chemin de fer Saint-Louis / Waldighoffen on michelbachlebas-bz.fr, accessed on November 28, 2014
- ↑ a b c Le train à Blotzheim “S'Waldighofer Zéglé” ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.1 MB, page 8) on cercledhistoiredeblotzheim.com, accessed November 28, 2014
- ↑ a b Waldighoffen - Saint-Louis on etienne.biellmann.free.fr
- ^ Christian Ammann, André Dubail: Porrentruy-Bonfol-Alsace . The history of the Jurassic-Alsatian railway line Porrentruy - Bonfol - Pfetterhouse - Dannemarie. Les Éditions du Cabri, 1983, ISBN 2-903310-33-5 , p. 67 .
