Thionville – Trier railway line

Thionville – Trier
The Upper Moselle route near Nittel
Route number (DB) :	3010 (Trier - Perl border)
Route number (SNCF) :	178,000
Course book section (DB) :	263e , 692 (1944)
Course book route (SNCF) :	152
Course book range :	2 ( TER Lorraine )
Route length:	70.1 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	DB: 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ SNCF: 25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Top speed:	120 km / h
Dual track :	continuously except: Karthaus Mitte – Saarbrücke, Nitteler Tunnel
Operating points and routes
Legend Moselle route from Koblenz formerly Moselle Railway from Bullay former Hochwaldbahn from Hermeskeil 111.6 Trier central station 136 m 113.3 Trier south B 268 118.3 Karthaus Saar route to Saarbrücken to DB Netz bridge warehouse (formerly Bw / AW Karthaus) 119.6 Karthaus Mitte ( Abzw ) to the Trier western route Connection Trier western route ↔ Saar route 120.1 Konz West (until 2001) from Trier western route 120.3 Karthaus West / Konz Mitte (Abzw) 120.3 Konz Mitte (since 2001) B 51 Saar formerly to the Hindenburg Bridge to Igel (1912–1945) 123.4 Wasserliesch 125.3 Top cheap 129.9 Temmels 132.2 Waves (mosel) Nittel tunnel (644 m) 135.0 Nittel 140.7 Wincheringen 142 m 144.6 Weir (moselle) 148.2 Palzem State border Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland 151.7 Nennig 153.5 Nennig CSL ( Anst ) 155.2 Complaint A 8 159.0 Perl (Moselle) 159.5 22.2 Perl border system change point   national border Germany / France 21.1 Apach 152 m 18.0 Sierck-les-Bains (formerly Sierck) 12.4 Malling (formerly Mallingen) 8.9 Kœnigsmacker (formerly Kingmakers) 4.6 Basse-Ham (formerly Niederham) Route from Völklingen Stretch of Luxembourg 0.0 Thionville (formerly Diedenhofen) Route to Metz

The Thionville – Trier railway line (also known as the Upper Moselle line ) connects the middle center of Thionville in Lorraine ( France ) with the upper center of Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ). The westernmost part of the Saarland on the Upper Moselle is crossed for a few kilometers .

history

181 001 with a freight train from Apach in September 1998

The line was opened to traffic on May 15, 1878 from the direction of Metz . In Trier, she met the connection to Luxembourg, completed in 1861, and the Eifel line from Cologne, which went into operation in 1871 . The route ended in Ehrang and led from Konz over the Trier western route , because at that time Trier West was still the city's main train station. Only a year later, with the completion of the line to Koblenz, was the main train station moved to its current location. The two railway stations in the Saarland, Nennig and Perl, were not built until 1927 and 1929 respectively.

The railway line was part of the Berlin – Metz cannon line .

The section of the line in Saarland between the municipal border of Nennig in the north and the French state border near Perl in the south formed an island operation in the Saarland , so it had no rail connection to the rest of the Saarland railways . It was therefore operated by the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) until the Saarland joined the Federal Republic of Germany on January 1, 1957 .

In 2009/2010, the Nittel tunnel was renovated and the previously double-track section was reduced to one track. According to the railways, this saved 6 million euros from the project, which otherwise cost almost 30 million euros, and happened despite repeated protests by the economics ministries of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland and the Lorraine Interregional Parliamentary Council (IPR) .

route

The line has two tracks throughout , with the exception of the Karthaus – Saarbrücken section and the Nitteler Tunnel, and is electrified . In Thionville, it branches off the main line between Metz and Luxembourg and runs largely along the Moselle . Therefore it has only a very slight gradient. There are no larger bridges as engineering structures. Two thirds of the route are in Germany today ; the French operating company TER Lorraine is responsible for a third . The trains on the German side are called RB 82 . The stations are in different transport associations in the two federal states . In the Trier area (up to the state border) they belong to the Trier Region Transport Association (VRT); the three stations in Saarland are part of the Saarland Transport Association (SaarVV).

traffic

DB railcar operating between Trier and Perl in Perl station

At the weekend between Trier and Metz , the SNCF railcar in Trier Hbf

Regional trains run hourly on the Trier – Perl section ( Upper Moselle route ).

With the timetable change in summer 2008, after more than 14 years, cross-border local rail passenger transport was resumed, but only with two pairs of trains on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, which leave Trier Hbf via Thionville to Metz at 10:42 a.m. and 7:42 p.m. as well as from Metz to Trier Hbf at 08:42 and 17:42. Previously, the only one-kilometer section between the respective been border stations Perl in Saarland and Apach not served in Lorraine in passenger transport. Both stations were terminus for all passenger trains from the respective country. The two pairs of trains on the RE 16 line are driven by Alstom Coradia A TER diesel multiple units.

According to the plans for the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle 2015, all RBs should be extended from Perl to Thionville from the timetable change in December 2014. The realization of an hourly cross-border local transport offer is now a long way off. In the association assembly of the regional rail passenger transport association Rhineland-Palatinate North it was said that there was no acceptance on the French side for the connection of the RB 82 to Thionville. In addition, the electric multiple units operating there would first have to be converted accordingly. Instead, the aim is to expand the range of services on line RE 16 from currently two train pairs on weekends to five to six train pairs. The lack of multi-system capability is to be circumvented by using diesel multiple units.

The few trains still running on the French side between Thionville and Apach were replaced by buses in December 2013 .

In August 2018, the special purpose association SPNV Nord responsible for the German part of the route decided to work with SNCF to run a regional express between Trier and Metz every two hours from 2024 . These trains are driven with two-system Alstom Coradia Polyvalent , which are purchased by the French region Grand Est and co-financed by Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate .

Vehicle use

RB with BR 143 / double deck car in summer 2011 near Wehr (Mosel)

After the end of steam traction in 1974, locomotives of the 181 series were mainly used for passenger and freight traffic on the line. The Trier V160 was also used in freight transport, the 216 series in the 1970s and the 215 series from the 1980s . Rail buses and French X 4300 from SNCF were also used for passenger transport . In 1996, class 670 railcars were used for a short time , but they did not prove themselves.

Only after the turn of the millennium did vehicle use change fundamentally. Only class 425 and class 426 railcars were used for passenger transport. These were to be replaced by the 442 series in 2010 . However, since they did not receive approval from the Federal Railway Authority, class 143 locomotives were used with older double-decker cars. French X-73900 railcars are used between Trier and Metz at the weekend.

In 2011, freight transport is firmly in the hands of multi-system vehicles such as the German 185 series and the French BB 37000 . There is no need to reconnect in Ehrang as the trains run to the Gremberg marshalling yard .

Web links

• Chemins de fer en Alsace-Lorraine - Railways in Alsace-Lorraine

Individual evidence

1. ^ Course book 1944
2. ↑ Pictures from the Nittel tunnel
3. ↑ Railway Atlas Germany 2007/2008 . 6th edition. Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9 .
4. ↑ http://www.mellyweb.com/Eisenbahnstrecken/Eisenbahnstrecken%20im%20Saarland.htm Overview of the Saarland railways
5. ^ Barbara Neu :: Saarland railway stations of the 19th century. In: Saarlandbilder.net. 1994, accessed July 10, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Saarbrücker Zeitung of June 16, 2009, page B1
7. ↑ http://kursbuch.bahn.de/hafas/kbview.exe/dn/KB692_R_Taeglich_G26112013.pdf?filename=KB692_R_Taeglich_G26112013.pdf&orig=k
8. ↑ kursbuch.bahn.de/hafas/kbview.exe/dn/KB692_H_Taeglich_G26112013.pdf?filename=KB692_H_Taeglich_G26112013.pdf&orig=k
9. ↑ New Trier node ( Memento from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
10. ^ Association meeting - 45th meeting. (PDF; 273.0 kB) In: spnv-nord.de. December 13, 2012, accessed January 22, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Regular train connection planned from Trier to Metz . In: Trierischer Volksfreund . August 8, 2018 ( volksfreund.de ).
12. ^ Alstom: 39 Coradia Polyvalent trains for the Grand Est region and for cross-border traffic to Germany. In: lok-report.de. Locomotive Report, October 22, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Udo Kandler: Railways in the Moselle Valley . In: Eisenbahn-Journal Special 11/1991, ISSN  0720-051X , p. 22.