Collonges-Fort-l'Écluse – Divonne-les-Bains line

The Collonges-Fort-l'Écluse – Divonne-les-Bains railway is a disused French railway line linking the Lyon-Geneva Railway from a junction near Collonges to Divonne-les-Bains. It crosses the whole of the region called the 'Pays de Gex' and is 38 km long. It used to continue through to Nyon in Switzerland.

Collonges-Fort-l'Écluse – Divonne-les-Bains
Start of the line seen from Collonges - Fort l'Ecluse. The daily waste disposal train is approaching from the Chevry terminus.
Overview
OwnerRFF
LocaleFrance (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)
Termini
  • Collonges-Fort l'Ecluse jct
  • Divonne-les-Bains
Service
Typefreight
SystemSNCF
Operator(s)SNCF
History
Opened1899
Technical
Line length38 km (24 mi)
Number of tracksSingle track
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) standard gauge
Route map

Lyon–Geneva railway from Lyon
142.544
Collonges – Fort-l'Écluse
356 m
Lyon–Geneva railway to Geneva
143.152
Viaduc d'Almogne
144.039
Tunnel des Iles (152 m)
145.125
Pont du Grand Echaud
145.321
Tunnel du Grand Echaud (259 m)
146.000
Paradis
150.010
PéronFarges
512 m
150.862
Pont de l'Anna (77 m)
153.430
Sous-Peyron
155.016
Saint-Jean-de-Gonville
499 m
156.740
Fénières
479 m
158.072
Thoiry
471 m
159.428
Allemogne
469 m
161.539
SergySaint-Genis
456 m
164.815
Flies
165.724
Chevry
488 m
169.156
Échenevex
529 m
171.487
Cessy
172.326
Gex
589 m
Pitegny
530 m
177.414
Grilly
515 m
179.434
Arbère
492 m
183.647
Divonne-les-Bains
471 m
French-Swiss Border
to Nyon

It is line number 891 000 of the French rail network.

History

The line was opened 1 June 1899, and extended to Nyon in Switzerland in 1904. In the sixties, there were four services per day using 'Picasso' diesel railcars. The last passenger train ran on 31 May 1980. Since then, the passenger service has been replaced by a TER bus service from Bellegarde-sur-Valserine to Divonne-les-Bains. The only traffic on the line until 2014 is a twice weekly household waste train from Chevry to the SIDEFAGE incinerator south of Bellegarde-sur-Valserine. Motive power for these trains was initially BB 67000 class diesel locomotives, but today they have been replaced by BB 75000s. Beyond Gex, the bridge over the Route nationale 5 has been dismantled, limiting traffic to Gex. The line is not operable beyond Chevry,

Use of the line for tourist trains has been mooted in the past. In May 2009, an association for the promotion of rail services in the Pays de Gex was formed to promote the inclusion of the line into the future Rhône Express Regional.[1] There have been plans to reactivate the line for passenger traffic and to integrate it into the Geneva suburban rail system.[2]

On April 28, 2014, it was announced that the line was to close for good.[3]

Although the Nyon-Divonne line was private it was operated by CFF until 1962. The service was replaced by a bus thereafter.[4]

References

Bibliography

  • Indicateur CHAIX summer 1967, page 563
  • Connaissances du Rail no. 119, December 1990
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