Tram-Train Mulhouse – Vallée de la Thur

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Avanto Tram-Train in Thann St-Jacques

The Mulhouse – Vallée de la Thur tram-train connects the city ​​center of Mulhouse with the municipality of Thann in the Thur Valley . The line uses the tracks of line 3 of the Mülhausen tram from the Gare Centrale stop to the Lutterbach Gare stop and then transfers to the tracks of the Lutterbach – Kruth railway line . At a later point in time, the tram-train will continue to Kruth . The commissioning took place on December 12, 2010, at the same time line 3 of the Mulhouse tram went into operation. It is the first "linked" tram-train route France (apart from the from the German Saarbrücken coming Saarbahn in Saargemünd ).

history

Route map

From 1991, discussions took place in Mulhouse about the reintroduction of a public transport system on its own route. In 1997 the Lutterbach – Kruth line was modernized for 30 million euros. The feasibility study for a tram-train on the Lutterbach – Kruth line has been published. On October 11, 2004, the public benefit ( Déclaration d'utilité publique (DUP)) of the project was determined. At the beginning of 2006, the construction work was awarded and the tram-train vehicles were ordered.

Construction work began in 2007, which in 2008 focused on the construction of structures and earthworks for the new tracks. In the same year the Thann-St-Jacques train station was relocated to its new location. The laying of the new tracks and the construction of the overhead line took place in 2009, as did the production of the tram-train vehicles, which were built by Siemens. In 2010, the final construction measures such as the construction of the platforms , the commissioning of the new signaling system and the delivery of the vehicles took place. The first test drive from Lutterbach to Graffenwald took place on June 3, 2010. The test runs on the tram network began on November 23, 2009. Commissioning took place on December 12, 2010.

Infrastructure

System change tram / railway in Lutterbach, on the left is the tramway's sweeping track

The tram-train route is 22 kilometers long. The maximum speed is 100 km / h, the average speed is 29 km / h.

From the main train station to the Stricker roundabout, the Tram-Train uses the tracks of line 2 of the Mulhouse tram. From there, two new tracks were laid to Dornach train station , after which it continues on a single track to Lutterbach train station . This section of the route is also used by line 3, which ends in Lutterbach, for which a sweeping track was created. From Lutterbach, the tram-train uses the Lutterbach – Kruth line to Thann Saint-Jacques, which has been electrified with overhead lines for this purpose .

For the commissioning of the tram-train, among other things, additional crossing possibilities had to be created at three stations. In addition, the tunnel in Thann had to be demolished in order to set up a station at the same location. In addition, a siding had to be created west of the Thann Saint-Jacques train station.

Three bridges had to be rebuilt. The construction of a double-track bridge over Rue du Tunnel and Avenue François-Mitterrand in Mulhouse . In addition, the underpass under the A 36 was expanded and a new single-track bridge was built over the Doller .

The clearance profile under the bridge of Route Nationale 83 between Graffenwald and Cernay is limited in height, so the contact wire height had to be reduced there. The contact line is dead for this purpose. Therefore the pantograph has to be lowered on this section.

Stations

The route has 18 stations.

Tram-Train Mulhouse – Vallée de la Thur
station Parish (noun) connection map
Thann Saint-Jacques Thann SNCF 47 ° 48 '47.5 "  N , 7 ° 5' 38.3"  E
Thann Center Thann 47 ° 48 '35 "  N , 7 ° 6' 6.4"  E
Thann Gare Thann SNCF 47 ° 48 ′ 32 "  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 25.1"  E
Vieux-Thann Vieux-Thann SNCF 47 ° 48 '20.3 ​​"  N , 7 ° 7' 11.8"  E
Vieux-Thann ZI Vieux-Thann 47 ° 48 '7 "  N , 7 ° 7' 59.6"  E
Cernay Cernay SNCF 47 ° 48 ′ 7 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 25.2"  E
Wittelsheim-Graffenwald Wittelsheim SNCF 47 ° 46 '51.8 "  N , 7 ° 13' 28.4"  E
Lutterbach Gare Lutterbach SNCF, tram 3 47 ° 45 ′ 29.6 "  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 37.4"  E
Museums Mulhouse Tram 3 47 ° 45 '2.4 "  N , 7 ° 17' 49.8"  E
Dornach Gare Mulhouse SNCF, tram 3 47 ° 44 ′ 47.7 "  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 30.7"  E
To the Rhine Mulhouse Tram 3 47 ° 44 ′ 37.6 "  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 59.7"  E
Daguerre Mulhouse Tram 2, tram 3 47 ° 44 '33.4 "  N , 7 ° 19' 28.1"  E
Tour nettle Mulhouse Tram 2, tram 3 47 ° 44 '42.2 "  N , 7 ° 19' 43"  E
Porte Haute Mulhouse Tram 2, tram 3 47 ° 44 '47.9 "  N , 7 ° 19' 54.8"  E
Mairie Mulhouse Tram 2, tram 3 47 ° 44 '57.6 "  N , 7 ° 20' 8.2"  E
Porte Jeune Mulhouse Tram 1, Tram 2, Tram 3 47 ° 44 '58.3 "  N , 7 ° 20' 24.7"  E
Republique Mulhouse Tram 1, Tram 3 47 ° 44 ′ 45.5 "  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 29.6"  E
Gare Centrale Mulhouse SNCF, tram 1, tram 3 47 ° 44 ′ 34 "  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 34.8"  E

Two new stations have been created outside of Mulhouse: Vieux-Thann ZI and Thann Center . On the new section, which is shared with Tram 3 of the Mulhouse tram , three new stations have been created: Dornach Gare , Zu Rhein and Musées , near the Cité du train .

Extension to Kruth

Originally, the tram train should have run to Kruth . However, due to funding difficulties, the project was split into two phases. The neighboring communities between Thann and Kruth are demanding the construction of the second phase.

Three Avanto multiple units parked in the Soléa depot

vehicles

Twelve Siemens Avanto articulated railcars are available for operation. They are referred to as U 25500 at SNCF, are 36.678 m long and have five double doors on each side of the vehicle for changing passengers. The vehicles can be used under catenary with 25  kV  / 50  Hz alternating and 750 volts direct voltage . These trains were built in Duppigheim by the Lohr company. The interior and exterior design comes from Peret .

business

Trains run every half hour on weekdays and Saturdays. There is a train every hour on Sundays. On weekdays, TERs condense the timetable in order to make connections to other TERs , including the TER 200 , which runs from Strasbourg to Basel .

The travel time between Vieux-Thann and Porte Jeune is 32 minutes. The TER from Vieux-Thann to Mulhouse train station takes 18 minutes.

In the first year of operation, 18.4% more passengers used the trains (TER and Tram-Train) between Thann and Mulhouse than in the previous year. But the hoped-for relief of road traffic initially failed to materialize. The original goal of doubling the number of passengers should be achieved by the end of 2013.

Siemens Avanto Tram-Train in Thann station

financing

A total of 147.05 million euros were invested, of which 84.4 million were allocated to the new construction and expansion of the infrastructure and 63 million to the procurement of rolling stock.

The infrastructure was financed 35.4% by the Alsace region (29.9 million euros) and 32.5% (27.4 million euros) by the state through the plan de relance . The remaining costs were shared by the Département du Haut-Rhin (10.5 million euros), SITRAM (city of Mulhouse and M2A ) (8 million euros), Réseau ferré de France (7.6 million euros) and SNCF (1 million euros).

The vehicles and the workshop were financed by the Alsace region (39.87 million euros) and M2A (22.78 million euros). The tram-train workshop in Mertzau cost 9.8 million euros, the vehicles 52.9.

literature

  • Christoph Groneck: Competition with car traffic . In: regional traffic . No. 4 , 2011, ISSN  1615-7281 , p. 45-47 .
  • S. Meillasson: Mulhouse-Thann: le tram-train côté conduite . Loc Magazine no.2, March-April-May 2011.

Web links

Commons : Tram-Train Mulhouse – Vallée de la Thur  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le tram-train Mulhouse Vallée de la Thur sera mis en service le 12 décembre prochain. A cette date, il sera le premier tram-train interconnecté de France. on rff.fr
  2. ↑ Framenau, Tram-Train-System , p. 12 ff.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Info brochure from RFF: TRAM-TRAIN MULHOUSE – VALLEE DE LA THUR Première phase du projet (PDF; 1.8 MB)
  4. ↑ a b c d Tram-Train Mulhouse - Vallée de la Thur: Jeudi 3 juin 2010 Début des essais techniques sur le réseau ferré national on rff.fr (PDF; 525 kB)
  5. ↑ Compte-rendu de la séance du conseil municipal de Thann du 27 January 2010.
  6. ↑ Tram-train: bilan mitigé après un an de fonctionnement In L'Alsace, February 24, 2012
  7. ↑ Denis Redoutey: Le matériel moteur SNCF en 2016 . La Vie du Rail, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-37062-040-8 , pp. 173 (French).
  8. ↑ a b Le tram-train de Mulhouse ne fait pas sauter les bouchons on mobilicites.com