Bitche station

Bitche
Bitche
former SNCF railway station
	Bitche station in 2010 (front side)
Location	Rue de la Gare; 57230 Bitche
Coordinates	49°02′56″N 7°25′56″E / 49.0487685°N 7.4322724°ECoordinates: 49°02′56″N 7°25′56″E / 49.0487685°N 7.4322724°E
Owned by	SNCF
Line(s)
Other information
Station code	87193821
History
Opened	15 December 1869
Closed	5 October 2014
Rebuilt	Winter 1902
Passengers
2014	27,488

The Gare de Bitche ("Bitche station", German: Bahnhof Bitsch), formerly Gare de Bitche-Ville ("Bitche city station"), is a railway station on the Haguenau–Hargarten-Falck line, located in the town of Bitche in the French department of Moselle.

It was opened in 1869 by the Chemins de fer de l'Est and closed in 2014 by the SNCF along with the Sarreguemines–Bitche section of the railway line.

Location[]

The junction station of Bitche is at an altitude of 307 metres and located at the kilometre point of 44.957 on the Haguenau–Hargarten-Falck line between the stations of and Lemberg.

History[]

Bitche station was opened on December 15, 1869 by the Chemins de fer de l'Est along with the section of the railway from Niederbronn to Sarreguemines. The railway section between Bitche and Niederbronn has been closed off in 1996 and has remained disused since. The Sarreguemines–Bitche section has had a substitute road service since December 18, 2011 following land subsidence and then performance that did not meet the expectation of the Regional Council of Lorraine.

8 December 1869: opening of the Sarreguemines–Niederbronn railway line
15 December 1869: opening of the Bitche station building
Winter 1902: opening of the current station building built by the Germans^[1]
29 September 1996: freight traffic ended between Niederbronn and Bitche
4 November 1996: passenger services closed between Niederbronn and Bitche
18 December 2011: provisional closure of the railway line between Bitche and Sarreguemines
5 October 2014: permanent closure of the railway line between Bitche and Sarreguemines

Passenger services[]

The station building and the railway line are fully and permanently closed.^[2]^[3] The railway line has been replaced by a TER Lorraine bus line.^[2]

Gallery[]

The station and the in the early 1900s.
The station in 1991.
The platforms and tracks in 1993.
The station in 2007 with the citadel in the background.

Notes[]

^ "Gare de Biche". Bienvenue Au pays de Bitche (in French). Retrieved 2 January 2015.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Bitche : la gare définitivement fermée". Le Républicain lorrain (in French). 6 October 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015..
^ "La ligne SNCF entre Bitche et Sarreguemines définitivement fermée". Le Républicain lorrain (in French). 21 November 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015..

[GareBitche-bitscherland-1] "Gare de Biche". Bienvenue Au pays de Bitche (in French). Retrieved 2 January 2015.

[RL6102014-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Bitche : la gare définitivement fermée". Le Républicain lorrain (in French). 6 October 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015..

[3] "La ligne SNCF entre Bitche et Sarreguemines définitivement fermée". Le Républicain lorrain (in French). 21 November 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015..

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