Administration of the chemins de fer d'Alsace et de Lorraine

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Route network of the AL 1919

The administration des chemins de fer d'Alsace et de Lorraine ( AL ) operated the railway network in Alsace and Lorraine from 1919 to 1937 .

prehistory

This network was part of the French private railway company Chemin de fer de l'Est (EST) until 1871 . With the peace treaty after the Franco-Prussian War , its shareholders were compensated by the French state with 325 million francs in 1871 and the railroad ceded to the German Reich . This operated the railway as the state railway " Reichseisenbahnen in Alsace-Lorraine ".

history

After the First World War , Alsace-Lorraine became French again. In the tense financial situation after the end of the war, the EST wanted the railway network, which it felt was too "Germanised" due to the legal traffic there and the signaling that conformed to German standards , but not to operate it again. Therefore, it was taken over by the state, which operated it from June 19, 1919 as the second French state railway . The signaling became French again, but right-hand traffic was retained.

According to the last inventory before nationalization, the AL in 1937 had 2,320 km of railway lines , 1,332 locomotives , 45,967 freight cars , 3,390 passenger cars , 34 railcars and 83 mail cars and employed 39,039 people.

The End

In the nationalization of all major railways in France on January 1, 1938, the AL in which was national Société des chemins de fer français (SNCF) and integrated part of the Region 1 (East). When it was nationalized, AL was the only company with a positive balance sheet.

See also

Remarks

  1. ^ The first French state railway was the ETAT (1878–1937).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Didier Janssoone: L'Histoire des chemins de fer pour les nuls . Éditions First, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-7540-5928-2 , pp. 40 .