Réseau de la Woëvre
The Réseau de la Woëvre was a 149 km (93 mi) long metre-gauge rail network that operated from 1914 to 1938 in France. A 66 km (41 mi) branch line to Commercy branched off from the 61 km Verdun-Montmédy main line at Vaux-devant-Damloup.[14]
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History
The network operator of the Réseau de la Woëvre was granted a concession for non-profit operation by a law of 13 June 1907, and began operating it in 1914.[15]
The Société Générale des Chemins de Fer Économiques (SE) took over the operation in 1922. The company had opened its own network in 1914, shortly before the start of the First World War.
Route
The Réseau de la Woëvre, with a gauge of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in), was a railway network built in the department of Meuse and operated between 1914 and 1938 by the Société Générale des Chemins de Fer Économiques (SE). It comprised a series of lines with a total length of 149 km (93 mi).
There were four sections:
- Metre gauge
- Standard gauge
- Robert-Espagne - Haironville (11 km), opened 1933, closed 1971
- Aubréville - Varenne-en-Argonne (11 km), opened in 1918, closed in 1937[18]
Stations and bridges
| Stations and bridges | Photos | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Montmédy-Ville |  | preserved |
| Louppy-Remoiville |  | |
| Brandeville |  | |
| Bréhéville |  | |
| Lissey |  | |
| Damvillers |  | |
| Moirey-Flabas |  | |
| Azannes | ||
| Vaux-devant-Damloup | .jpg.webp) | |
| Fleury-devant-Douaumont |  | |
| Meuse, Pont de la Galavaude | .jpg.webp) | |
| Verdun | _-_La_gare_Meusienne_et_le_monument_de_la_D%C3%A9fense_-_Editeur_P.Husson.jpg.webp) | |
| Stations and bridges | Photos | Condition |
| Vaux-devant-Damloup | ||
| Eix-Abaucourt | _-_Gare_Meusienne.jpg.webp) | |
| Manheulles | _-_La_Gare.jpg.webp) | preserved |
| Fresnes-en-Woëvre | _-_La_Gare_(en_achevement).jpg.webp) | |
| Combres | _-_La_Gare.jpg.webp) | preserved |
| Thillot |  | preserved |
| Vigneulles-lès-Hattonchâtel |  | preserved |
| Buxières | _-_La_Gare.jpg.webp) | |
| Boncourt-sur-Meuse | _-_La_Gare_de_Woevre.jpg.webp) | |
| Canal de l'Est |  | |
| Commercy |  |
References
- Verdun (Rive Droite) 1915, in Campagne 1914–1918 - Historique des 39e et 239e Régiments d’Artillerie de Campagne. Gedruckt von J. Coubé et Fils, Nancy, 1934 und Extrait de la carte au 80.000e du Service Géographique de l'Armée.
- Tronçon Vaux–Verdun
- Carte departementale, 55 Meuse
- IGN map of 1950 and aerial photos from 1950 to 1965.
- Meuse-Argonne offensive, map showing daily position of front line : Map Room G-3, G.H.Q., 24. Mai 1919.
- Lissey – Pendant la guerre.
- Stefan Schweitzer: Exkurs: Dr. med. Alfred Bauer - Arzt in Deutsch-Eck.
- Montmédy-Échange and Montmédy-Ville, 26 July 1927.
- Lissey – Apres la guerre.
- Romagne near Deutsch-Eck.
- Deutsch-Eck.
- Brandeville – Le chemin de fer
- SE Meuse
- Henri Domengie: Les petits trains de jadis : L'Est de la France, Breil-sur-Roya. Éditions du Cabri, 1992.
- "Loi declarant d'utilite publique l'etablissement, dans le departement de la Meuse, d'un reseau de chemins de fer d'iteret local, dit réseau de la Woëvre, compose des deux lignes de Verdun a Montmedy et de Commercy a Verdun." In: Bulletin des lois de la République française. 13 June 1907. Downloaded on 23 May 2021.
- Approximate route Verdun–Vaux-devant-Damloup–Montmédy on Google Maps.
- Approximate route Vaux-devant-Damloup – Commercy on Google Maps.
- FAQS: Société Générale des Chemins de Fer Économiques.
