Compagnie du Chemin de Fer d'Orléans à Rouen

Rouen Orléans.

The Compagnie du Chemin de Fer d'Orléans à Rouen was a French railway company. The company was created in 1872 by M. Ridder, and subsequently absorbed by the Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest in 1891.

A law permitted departmental councils to authorise the building of railways of local necessity, the Conseil Général de l'Eure authorised the line from Orléans to Rouen almost as soon as the law was passed.

Its story begins in 1878 when funds and property buying began as well as a quote for the Loiret-Voves section. Further bridge building took place at Chartres and several rivers such as over the Avre, Blaise and the Blairas between 1869 and 1873. The trackbeds were built at the same time as well as the station buildings and track.

The company was to use the PO station at Orléans, the Ouest station at Dreux.

The line as a whole closed in 1989 although several portions remain in use for passenger, freight or preserved rail.

Line openings

Date Section Length (km)
14/02/1870 Rouen - Petit-Quevilly 3
10/05/1872 Evreux - Louviers 26
28/10/1872 Chartres - Orléans 75
01/05/1873 Vernon - Pacy-sur-Eure 19
02/08/1873 Chartres - Dreux 42
15/08/1875 Louviers - Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf 18
14/01/1876 Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf - Elbeuf 1

Stations

Rolling stock

Locomotives

Carriages

The Orléans-Rouen only possessed 44 coaches, all of which were transferred to the Etat at the time of the takeover in 1878.

Remaining lines

Notes

  1. AB = Mixed first and second class
  2. CF d'Orléans à Rouen
  3. ABC = Mixed, first, second and third class
  4. C = Third class

References

  1. 1 2 Davies 2001, p. 6.
  2. Davies 2001, pp. 51–52.
  • Davies, John (August 2001). Chemins de fer de l'État Locomotive List 1878–1938. Woodbridge, Queensland: Dr. John Davies. ISBN 0-7316-8442-7. 
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