Rémilly–Saarbrücken railway

The so-called Forbach train is historically the extension of the easterly (more precisely, Ludwigshafen) coming Palatine Ludwig Railway, which had reached 1848 Homburg, a year later, the Bavarian- Prussian border at Bexbach and 1850 finally Neunkirchen ( Saar). In the next year, on November 15, 1852, had worked its way over to Saarbrucken to Forbach.

Prussia ran the expansion of railway lines not as fast as it had gone despite topographical difficulties in the Bavarian Palatinate forward; in Berlin it was not yet convinced of the efficiency. The Royal Built by the Direction of the Saarbrücken Railway, 1858 included in the Nahe Valley Railway section Bexbach -Forbach thus became the first state railway Prussia.

The route from Metz to Forbach had been completed a year earlier. Today, the section Saarbrücken -Forbach - Rémilly is part of the International Association Frankfurt (Main) - Kaiserslautern -Saarbrücken - Paris, which is traversed with high speed trains.

Since 2007, Forbach, with the ICE, in 1 hour 40 minutes from Paris reached. In addition, regularly travels TER Lorraine from Metz to Saarbrücken. A special feature is the come on the section Forbach, Saarbrucken DMUs of type X 73900 used, although the route is electrified. On the Metz -Forbach section features the Z series 24500, Z 11500 can be used.

The two most important are holding today Forbach, because border station and stop all trains including the ICE / TGV trains and Béning because transfer hubs to route to Sarreguemines.

Station Hombourg- skin, looking towards the east

Route at Ebersviller -la -Petite

Metz railway station with water tower in the background

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