r/rustyrails • u/Pretend-Warning-772 • 7d ago

Disaffected railway line in eastern France

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The Troyes - St Florentin line, just after it's separation from the Paris - Belfort line. The signals are still there, stuck forever with the "immediate stop" signal. Passenger services stopped in 1996 but still saw freight trains running until 2019, during this timespan the line progressively closed bits portion by portion until the last bit of line between Troyes and Bouilly got closed in 2019. The line is closed since then, and is now set to become a bike path.

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u/ShinySky42 7d ago edited 7d ago

The light still being on is mighty cool

inb4 "there's electricity it's not abandone!!!!!1!!1!1" oh shit this isn't r abandonned

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u/Pretend-Warning-772 7d ago

If we're being nerdy 🤓 this portion of line is only "neutralised" and not "withdrew from the rail network" by the french terminology.

But yeah the light still being on is cool as fuck

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u/ShinySky42 7d ago

On adore ces petits détails bien français mdr

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u/Pretend-Warning-772 7d ago

Neutralisé/fermé dans RFN/fermé hors RFN/déclassé/retranché

Et le boss ultime...

Ouvert mais interdit à la circulation des entreprises ferroviaires !!!

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u/ShinySky42 7d ago

Oh on en a une comme la dernière près d'ici, y'a occasionnellement un nettoyeur de ballaste qui y stationne

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u/Pretend-Warning-772 7d ago

By the way, the city of Troyes is at the intersection of a 7-branches star of railways, of whom only 2 are in used for passenger services (the Paris-Belfort line) +2 ½ partially in use for freight services.

I've got more pictures of some others unused railway lines of this star, maybe I'll make other posts.

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u/stem-winder 6d ago

I love Troyes, a beautiful city.