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The railway line connecting Beauvais to Amiens was a secondary line with single track, exploited initially by the Compagnie of North then the SNCF of 1876 with 1939 (passenger traffic) and 1979 for the last section exploited for freight (Conty - Towards-on-Saddles) __TOC
History
The line was declared of public utility the June 15th 1872 and was opened in two sections:
- Conty - Towards-on-Saddles the August 18th 1874
- Saint-Omer-in-Roadway - Conty the April 15th 1876.
The line, near to the face of the Bataille of the Sum during the First World War played a big role, which brought its setting to double track in 1916. In particular, it forwarded the English troops in October 1914 to the face of North at the time of the Course to the sea, then in 1918 to bring the allied troops towards Crèvecœur and Conty to counter the German offensive of the March 21st then that of the May 27th 1918.
Between the two wars, the station of Fountain-Bonneleau was aggrandie by workers Indochinese come from the Annam
Within the framework of the Coordination of transport envisaged by the decree of January 19th, 1934, the public Minister for Labor decided on December 26th, 1938 to transfer on road the service traveller. This decision took effect on January 9th, 1939 in the railroads, but the passenger traffic began again during the Second world war because of the gasoline shortage and the bombardment of the viaduct of Poix on the Ligne Rouen-Amiens: a goods and passenger train (travellers and goods) circulated between Beauvais and Amiens of spring 1942 with the Libération.
The goods traffic perduré until 1953 at a rate of 2 daily trains.
Layout
The line separated from the Paris-Beauvais line it Tréport in Gare of Saint-Omer-in-Roadway. It extended on 42,5 km with single track, rising by a slope of 10 ‰ until the threshold of Rotangy (watershed between the basin of the the Seine and that of the Somme, then went down again by a comparable slope to the station of Crèvecœur-the-Large, where it gave correspondence with the Ligne Estrées-Saint-Denis - Froissy - Crèvecœur-the-Large, secondary line with metric gauge Track.The line continued to drop by borrowing the valley of the Selle to the station of Bacouël (close to the halt of Towards) where the line was connected to the transversal Amiens - Rouen.
The line served the stations, halts and following stagnation points:
- Saint-Omer-in-Roadway (km 0) (separation of the line Line Paris-North - Beauvais - the Tréport-Seas)
- Oudeuil (km 4)
- Blicourt (km 6)
- Rotangy (km 10)
- Crèvecœur-the-Large (km 13) (correspondence with the Line Estrées-Saint-Denis - Froissy - Crèvecœur-the-Large).
- Fountain-Bonneleau (km 20)
- Bonneleau (km 23)
- Croissy-on-That (km 25)
- Monsures (km 27)
- Conty (km 30)
- Lœuilly (km 35)
- Prouzel (km 40)
- Towards-on-Saddles (km 43) (connection on the line Amiens - Rouen)
By taking of account the joint bases (Beauvais - Saint-Omer-in-Roadway in the south, and Bacouël - Amiens, the line had a 68 km, including 41 in the department of Oise and 27 km length in that of the Sum.
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Administrative designation
The line is carried out under the legal mode of the lines of general interest, like element of the line of Monsoult - Amiens.It carries number 320000 in the nomenclature of RF.
Exploitation
At the beginning of the 20th century, the line is traversed by five trains daily travellers.
Because of the First World War, the line is assigned to the military needs and the civil traffic is as well as possible assured by two trains between the Gare Saint-Omer-in-Roadway and that of of Amiens Saint-Roch).
In the inter-war period, the service is ensured by three daily trains for the travellers, but the line also conveys trains goods essential to the economic operation of the served regions.
For example, a daily coach was reserved for the needs for the fabric factory of the Crocq, two others for the forwarding of the productions of the dairy of Fountain-Bonneleau. The source exploited by the Caulier establishments with Fountain-Bonneleau dispatched its products towards Amiens, Beauvais and Rouen and the Delacour establishments with Beaudéduit received their agricultural machinery by coaches on the line. The notes of these walks can be in the green Picardy and tourist bureaus of Conty.
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