HSL 1

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HSL 1
Location and course of HSL 1 in the Belgian high-speed network
Route number :	96N (Brussels-Halle) 01 (Halle-Lille)
Route length:	76.1 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Top speed:	300 km / h
Legend Existing line from Bruxelles-Central / Brussel-Centraal 0.0 Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid 11.8 0.0 Branch Noord-Halle 13.0 1.3 Hall Existing route to Tournai Existing route to Mons Viaduct at Lembeek (552 m) Tunnel at Tubize (270 m) 28.8 Existing route from Halle 28.8 Beauregard junction 32.4 Junction Patard 32.4 Existing route to Tournai Viaduc d'Abre (2005 m) 50.4 Tourpes Existing route Tournai - Mons 62.7 Existing route from Mons 62.7 Antoing junction Antoing Viaduct (438 m) 76.1 Belgium / France border 87.0 Existing route to Lille Existing route from Lille LGV Nord to Paris Swell:

The HSL 1 (Dutch: Hogesnelheidslijn 1 , French: LGV 1 or Ligne à grande vitesse 1 ) is a Belgian high-speed route between Brussels and the French border near Lille . It is 87.9 kilometers long, 76.1 kilometers of which are new lines and 11.8 kilometers of upgraded lines , and connects the Belgian capital with Lille, London and Paris .

course

The 71-kilometer new line runs from the Franco-Belgian border near Wannehain (around 15 kilometers southeast of Lille) to Lembeek (around 17 kilometers south of Brussels). In Antoing a 438-meter-long bridge over which originated Scheldt . At Maubray , a single-track junction at the same level to the existing Tournai – Mons – Namur line was created. Between the route kilometers 49 and 51 (from Brussels) the route passes the Dendre valley at Arbre on a 2-kilometer viaduct .

Over a length of around 30 km, the new line was laid directly along existing traffic routes such as the Tournai – Brussels railway line and the E429 motorway ( traffic route bundling ).

history

In the course of the line construction, the existing line in the section between Lembeek and Brussels was expanded to include four tracks. On October 27, 1997, the test drives began with the Thalys PBKA unit 4301, during which the Belgian speed record was increased to 354 km / h after a few days. The construction costs amounted to the equivalent of around 2.5 billion D-Marks.

The official commissioning took place on December 14, 1997. The maximum speed in the 71 km long new building section is 300 km / h, in the 17 km long expansion section (in the Brussels area) 220 km / h. A source from 2002 speaks of an operating speed of 320 km / h on the new line. The commissioning of the route reduced the travel time between Paris and Brussels to one hour and 22 minutes.

After the route opened, the number of Thalys passengers increased by 72 percent to half a million in the first six weeks (compared to the same period last year). Today (as of 2010) the route is used by Thalys, TGV and Eurostar .

technology

The route has a gravel superstructure with monobloc concrete sleepers and UIC-60 rails and is completely fenced. The newly built section of the route is electrified with 25  kilovolt 50 Hertz alternating voltage , the old section that has been removed is electrified with 3 kilovolt direct voltage .

Since the TBL2 train control system was not considered fully developed before the line was opened, the line was equipped with the French TVM 430 train control system. For the first time, a different train protection system than TBL was used in Belgium.

Picture gallery

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  Transport route bundling HSL 1 and A8

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  Transport route bundling

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  Eurostar

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  Thalys

See also

• HSL 2
• HSL 3
• HSL 4
• HSL Zuid
• PBKA
• Channel Tunnel Rail Link

Web links

• Belgian high-speed site (French, with map)
• High-speed routes in Belgium for Google Earth (.kml)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Appendices C.04 and E.1 of the Infrabel Terms of Use
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Sven Andersen: New and upgraded lines for high-speed traffic in Belgium . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 6/2002, ISSN  1421-2811 , pp. 278–281.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Message free travel on the Belgian high-speed line . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 1/2, 1998, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 45
4. ↑ Successful Thalys report . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , Issue 5, 1998, ISSN 1421-2811 , p. 206 
5. ^ To Van den Abeele, Johan Verschaeve: Train control and train protection in Belgium - today and tomorrow . In: signal + wire . tape 99 , no. 11 , 2007, ISSN  0037-4997 , p. 14-18 .