Thionville–Trier railway

The railway line Thionville and Trier (also Obermosel route) connects the middle center of Thionville in Lorraine with the top center of Trier in Rhineland- Palatinate. Here also the westernmost part of the Saarland is traversed on the Upper Moselle for a few kilometers.

History

The track was released on May 15, 1878 Coming from Metz, for traffic. In Trier, she met in 1861 finished joint after Luxembourg and in 1871 completed line from Cologne. The route ended in Ehrang and used from Konz Trier West route because then Trier- West was still the main train station. Only a year later with the completion of the line to Koblenz Central Station has been moved to its present location. The two railway stations today Saarland Nennig and Perl were built until 1927 or 1929.

The railway line was part of the so-called canon Bahn Berlin -Metz.

The track was between waves and Perl from June 14, 2009 fully locked until August 16, 2010 due to construction work. A rail replacement bus service has been established. Since the nearly 30 -million-euro renovation work on Nitteler tunnel for rail information 6 million euros would have been more expensive with maintaining the duality, the track was despite repeated protests of the economic ministries of Rhineland -Palatinate and Saarland, and the Lorraine Interregional Parliamentary Council (IPR ) on a track dismantled.

Route

The route is double track throughout, except for the section Karthaus -Saar bridge and tunnel Nitteler, and electrified. It branches from the main line Metz- Thionville from Luxembourg in and runs largely along the Moselle. It therefore has only a very low gradient. Larger bridges are not present as engineering structures. Two thirds of the route are now in Germany, one-third the French operating company TER Lorraine is responsible. The trains on the German side are managed as RB 82. The stations are located in the two German states in different transport associations. In the area of ​​Trier ( to the border ) they belong to the Transport Association Region Trier, three stations in the Saarland belong to SaarVV.

Traffic

Since the timetable change summer 2008 run after more than 14 years we again cross-border passenger transport trains, but only on weekends at two- hour intervals. Previously, the approximately one kilometer section between the two stations at the border, Perl, Saarland and Apache in Lorraine, not served. Both stations were terminal stations for all passenger trains from the country.

As part of the Rheinland -Pfalz- clock 2015, all RB should be extended from the timetable change in December 2014 from Perl to Thionville.

Vehicle use

After the end of steam traction in 1974 were passenger and freight services on the route used mainly locomotives of the series 181 in. In freight transport, Trier also the 215 series came V160 used in the 1970s, the 216 series, starting from the 1980s, then in passenger rail cars also were used and French X 4300 SNCF. 1996 briefly railcars of series 670 were used, but not proven itself.

Only after the turn of the millennium, the use of vehicles changed fundamentally. In passenger railcars only the 425 series and 426 series were used. These should be replaced by the 442 series in 2010. However, since they did not receive approval of the Federal Railway Authority, including locomotives of the series 143 were used with older double-deckers. French X 73900 railcar used on the weekend between Trier and Metz.

Freight transport is 2011 firmly in the hands of multi-system vehicles such as the German 185 series and the French BB 37000th The reclamping in Ehrang eliminated because the trains run up to the marshalling yard Gremberg.