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Albi - Saint-Juery: hundred years and full with projects
Albi - Saint-Juery has just celebrated his hundred years on December
24. Currently, the traffic freight is fed by 5 companies of which
4 have a connected up final installation (ITE). «The working
Glassmaking of Albi »(VOA) receives per week 960 tons (t)
of sand coming from Lavardac, and dispatches bottles; the Briane
«company », located in the vicinity, receives glass
scrap of Germany, at a rate of a train of 1 700 T per month; the
Maraval «company »receives three to 4 coaches per
quarter of barks, in station of Saint-Juery. At the beginning
of this station without management for ten years, the Tarnaise
«company of the panels»has dispatched three coaches
per month towards Italy. The Doumerg «establishments »of
the industrial park of Jalard receive manures 1 time per quarter
by Rapilège trains. The line, of which speed is limited
to 40 km/h, is equipped with
rails doubles mushroom of 38 kg/m, and the automated PN with conditional
crossing are equipped with a radio command. The basic service
road of the line is assured 3 times per week, or more according
to the traffic, with Y8000 of Albi, which, beyond 500 T, is replaced
by BB 66 000.
As for the passenger traffic, a project of connection between
Albi and Marseilles via Saint-Affrique, Vigan and Nimes, had already
been implemented a hundred years ago. But the company of the South,
at which returned the concession of the part Albi - Saint-Affrique,
understood that it would not bring back benefit, on the contrary.
Work of infrastructure (platform, structures and houses of guard
of the PN) lasted 35 years, but the company had refused the reception
of work, in 1932. Two years later, official stop of work.
Those of the superstructure (way and buildings of the stations)
beyond Saint-Juery were never undertaken. If the Albi line - Saint-Juery
was born, it is thanks to the tenacity of the steel-works of «the
Jump of the Tarn », in Saint-Juery for whom this connection
was necessary to his expansion. On the unfinished line Saint-Juery
- Saint-Affrique (70 km), displaced in 1941, a tourist road took
over on a good part of the layout. As for the 9 km of the line
Albi - Saint-Juery, they were competed with since 1909 by the
line parallel with metric gauge track Albi Saint-Juery - Alban,
leading the company of the South to close its line with the travellers,
in 1933. Dice at the time, exclusively for freight, the line ran
out primarily the goods of «the Jump of the Tarn »until
1983, date of the closing of the steel-works. The demounting of
the very particular junction comprising followed a graining with
passage under the first part.
Inserted in full urban and industrial fabric, the line could why
not find a day a development, without too much investment, in
a service road périurbaine. This service road could be
carried out thanks to a shuttle rail-car serving with the passage
of the points of stop to arrange. Moreover, it would thus constitute
a major axis in public transport while being based on the network
of urban bus Albigensian «Albibus », thanks to points
of correspondence.
Bernard VIEU LVDR of 26-01-00
